Aleksandar Hemon

Short Biography

Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written several books: The Making of Zombie Wars (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); Behind the Glass Wall (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); The Book of My Lives (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); Love and Obstacles: Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009); The Lazarus Project: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was named as a New York Times Notable Book and New York magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year; Nowhere Man (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002), also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Question of Bruno: Stories (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000). He frequently publishes in The New Yorker, and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani.