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Aleksandar Hemon

January 2023

  • Aleksandar Hemon photographed at Princeton University, New Jersey, January 2023.

    Books interview
    Aleksandar Hemon: ‘A book isn’t a car – not everything has to work’

    The Sarajevo-born author on his new historical novel’s multilingual sensibility, screenwriting for The Matrix sequel and pretending to be Kevin Keegan

November 2019

  • The old and the new Sarajevo.

    My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong To You by Aleksandar Hemon review – socialism and nostalgia

    The acclaimed Bosnian-American writer considers his parents’ broken dreams and recalls first love and childhood days in Sarajevo

January 2018

  • Jonathan Safran Foer

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast

    Jonathan Safran Foer explains why he loves this tale about the Bosnian author’s father, which is then read by Chris Moran

March 2016

  • Browsing in an English bookshop.

    Fiction v nonfiction – English literature's made-up divide

    Some cultures do not distinguish between fiction and nonfiction – and instead talk of ‘stories’. Is that a barrier to English-language writers and publishers? Or should they just learn to enjoy telling tales?

November 2015

  • Thatcher in a gun sight

    Top 10s
    Top 10 assassination plots in fiction

    Plans to kill have a powerful appeal for narrative plotters, including novelist Jonathan Lee. Here are some of his favourites, from Hilary Mantel to Ian Fleming

October 2015

  • The writers Aleksandar Hemon and Saša Stanišić

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Aleksandar Hemon and Saša Stanišić – books podcast

    When Yugoslavia exploded into war at the end of the last century, Aleksandar Hemon and Saša Stanišić found themselves cast adrift. We catch up with fiction from Bosnian refugees who have found literary success in the US and Germany

September 2015

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon review – war, identity and dislocation

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    Meet the author
    Aleksandar Hemon: ‘We have to fight those who have a vision of excluding other people’

May 2015

  • Aleksandar Hemon: 'I often slip into rants'

    Aleksandar Hemon on zombie culture: 'America deeply believes in violence'

    The novelist’s new book is about the undead and why they resonate in American culture post-9/11 – but there’s nothing grim about his dazzling work

April 2013

  • the book of my lives

    The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review

    Aleksandar Hemon's autobiographical essays address often tragic events with power and precision, writes Andrew Anthony

March 2013

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review

    Leo Robson finds Aleksandar Hemon's casually assembled memoir of Sarajevo and Chicago as frustrating as a jigsaw puzzle with no pattern

February 2013

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo

    Aleksandar Hemon's new memoir is an effort to restore the fragile memories of his Sarajevo, and follow the threads that link his Bosnian past to his American present. By John Freeman

February 2012

  • American novelist Claire Messud.

    Granta 118: Exit Strategies – review

    Anita Sethi is absorbed by Granta's latest, which explores the delights and horrors of entanglement and extrication

February 2010

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Aleksandar Hemon and Anthea Bell on European literature in translation

    Aleksandar Hemon and Anthea Bell discuss European literature and translation and we look at some surprises in a chart that lists the bestselling authors across the continent

January 2010

  • Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksandar Hemon

    Michel Faber tackles a compendium of modern European writing

September 2009

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon

    Bosnian-American Aleksandar Hemon's collection of stories is eccentric, witty and alive with compassion, says Rachel Aspden

August 2009

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon reads Everything

    Aleksandar Hemon reads Everything, the second story in his new collection, Love and Obstacles, narrating a very unusual rite of passage

  • Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon

    Review: Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
    Lindesay Irvine finds rich delights in Aleksandar Hemon's tragicomic stories

  • Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon reads Stairway to Heaven

    Aleksandar Hemon reads Stairway to Heaven, the first story in his new collection, Love and Obstacles. A bookish Sarajevan sixteen-year-old is transplanted into the rich heat of Kinshasa, and begins an exhilarating friendship with a glamorous American

September 2008

  • Two go mad in Europe

    Review: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
    James Lasdun follows Aleksandar Hemon from turn-of-the-century Chicago to modern-day Moldova and Ukraine

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