Aleksandar Hemon
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The acclaimed Bosnian-American writer considers his parents’ broken dreams and recalls first love and childhood days in Sarajevo
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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?
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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
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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 GermanyPodcast
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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
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Aleksandar Hemon's autobiographical essays address often tragic events with power and precision, writes Andrew Anthony
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Leo Robson finds Aleksandar Hemon's casually assembled memoir of Sarajevo and Chicago as frustrating as a jigsaw puzzle with no pattern
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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
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Anita Sethi is absorbed by Granta's latest, which explores the delights and horrors of entanglement and extrication
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hlcarpenter.com 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
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Michel Faber tackles a compendium of modern European writing
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Bosnian-American Aleksandar Hemon's collection of stories is eccentric, witty and alive with compassion, says Rachel Aspden
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Aleksandar Hemon reads Everything, the second story in his new collection, Love and Obstacles, narrating a very unusual rite of passage
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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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Aleksandar Hemon 'The way I work, I start from the personal space, then expand outwards. I am everyone in my books. That's the whole point'
hlcarpenter.com Books podcast Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast