Aleksander Hemon
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Aleksander Hemon (born ?, 1964) is an American writer and journalist. He sometimes publishes in the The New Yorker magazine, and has written an acclaimed novel, Nowhere Man and a collection of short stories, The Question of Bruno.
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Born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo and was a published writer in Serbo-Croatian magazines by the time he was 26."[1] He has lived in America since 1992, when he found himself in America as a tourist and became stranded when his hometown descended into anarchy and civil war. In America he has worked as a Greenpeace canvasser, sandwich assembly-line worker, bike messenger, graduate student in English literature, bookstore salesperson, and ESL teacher."[2]
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Short magazine profile of Aleksander Hemon by Jenifer Berman
- Salon review of Hemon's novel Nowhere Man by Laura Miller
- 17th Prague Writer's Festival page with a short bio, an interview and links to Hemon's online works
- "Stairway to Heaven" by Aleksander Hemon
- "Rationed" by Aleksander Hemon
- Salon interview with Hemon by Laura Miller
- "The 'next Nabokov' teaches at Northwestern" (Feb. 2002) by Jonathan M. Katz
