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Aleksandar Hemon was born on 9 September, 1964 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer and screenwriter. Discover Aleksandar Hemon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Occupation Short story writer novelist columnist television writer screenwriter
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 9 September 1964
Birthday 9 September
Birthplace Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality United States

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1964

Aleksandar Hemon (Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter.

1992

Since 1992 he has lived in the United States, where he found himself as a tourist and became stranded at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia.

In the U.S. he worked as a Greenpeace canvasser, sandwich assembly-line worker, bike messenger, graduate student in English literature, bookstore salesperson, and ESL teacher.

1995

He published his first story in English, "The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders" in Triquarterly in 1995, followed by "The Sorge Spy Ring," also in Triquarterly in 1996, "A Coin" in Chicago Review in 1997, "Islands" in Ploughshares in 1998, and eventually "Blind Jozef Pronek" in The New Yorker in 1999.

His work also eventually appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.

Hemon also has a bi-weekly column, written and published in Bosnian, called "Hemonwood" in the Sarajevo-based magazine, BH Dani (BH Days).

Hemon is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where he lives with his second wife, Teri Boyd, and their daughters Ella and Esther.

1996

He earned his master's degree from Northwestern University in 1996.

2000

In 2000 Hemon published his first book, The Question of Bruno, which included short stories and a novella.

2002

He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

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.

Hemon is also a musician, distributing his Electronica work under the pseudonym "Cielo Hemon."

Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia, to a father of partial Ukrainian descent and a Bosnian Serb mother.

Hemon's great-grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came to Bosnia from Western Ukraine prior to World War I, when both countries were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo and was a published writer in former Yugoslavia by the time he was 26.

His second book, Nowhere Man, followed in 2002.

Variously referred to as a novel and as a collection of linked stories, Nowhere Man concerns Jozef Pronek, a character who earlier appeared in one of the stories in The Question of Bruno.

It was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.

2004

He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2004.

2006

In June 2006, Exchange of Pleasant Words and A Coin were published by Picador.

2008

On 1 May 2008, Hemon released The Lazarus Project, inspired by the story of Lazarus Averbuch, which featured photographs by Hemon's childhood friend, photographer Velibor Božović.

The novel was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named as a "New York Times Notable Book" and New York magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year.

2009

In May 2009, Hemon released a collection of stories, Love and Obstacles, which were largely written at the same time as he wrote The Lazarus Project.

2010

The couple's second child, 1-year-old daughter Isabel, died of complications associated with a brain tumor in November 2010.

2011

Hemon published an essay, "The Aquarium," about Isabel's death in the June 13/20, 2011 issue of The New Yorker.

Hemon grew up near the Grbavica Stadium, and he is a supporter of the Željo, as the Sarajevo based football club FK Željezničar is affectionately called, with a membership.

He is also a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.

In 2011, Hemon was awarded the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award chosen by the judges Jill Ciment, Salvatore Scibona, and Gary Shteyngart.

2013

Hemon's first nonfiction book, The Book of My Lives, was released in 2013.

2015

Hemon's novel The Making of Zombie Wars was released in 2015.

2019

He published his second work of non-fiction, My Parents: An Introduction, in 2019.

On August 20, 2019, it was announced that Hemon would co-write the script for The Matrix Resurrections alongside David Mitchell and Lana Wachowski.

The film was released on December 22, 2021.

His latest novel The World and All That it Holds was published on February 2, 2023.

In October 2019, Hemon joined many intellectuals in an international public outcry in response to the decision of the Nobel Committee to award Peter Handke a Nobel Prize in literature earlier that month (citing Handke's support of the late Slobodan Milošević and Bosnian genocide denial).

Hemon wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times, published in the October 15 issue, criticizing the Nobel committee for its decision.

While in the United States, Aleksandar Hemon started working as a screenwriter, and collaborated with Lana Wachowski (the Wachowskis) and David Mitchell as co-writer on the finale of the TV show Sense8 and the film The Matrix Resurrections.

As an accomplished fiction writer who learned English as an adult, Hemon has some similarities to Joseph Conrad, which he acknowledges through allusion in The Question of Bruno, though he is most frequently compared to Vladimir Nabokov.

All of his stories deal in some way with the Yugoslav Wars, Bosnia, or Chicago, but they vary substantially in genre.