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Aleksandar Hemon: Aleksandar Hemon

This guide is to accompany Aleksandar Hemon's Spring 2010 visit to DePauw.

Aleksandar Hemon

Photograph by Velibor Bozovic

Aleksandar Hemon
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Information about Aleksandar Hemon

Biography in Context
from Contemporary Authors Online
A Conversation with Aleksandar Hemon
The Missouri Review, Volume 32, Number 3, Fall 2009, pp. 84-101
A Cultural Conversation / With Aleksandar Hemon: In Chicago, a Sarajevo Exile Finds a New Home and Voice
Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Dec 23, 2008. pg. D.7
Hemon Wins Zacharis Award
Ploughshares; Winter2001/2002, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p203-205, 3p,

Short Stories by Aleksandar Hemon

The links below will take you to the full text of some of Aleksandar Hemon's short stories.

The Noble Truths of Suffering
New Yorker; 9/22/2008, Vol. 84 Issue 29, p76-85, 10p
Stairway to Heaven
New Yorker; 10/23/2006, Vol. 82 Issue 34, p72-81, 10p
Love and Obstacles
New Yorker; 11/28/2005, Vol. 81 Issue 38, p132-143, 9p
Szmura's Room
New Yorker; 6/14/2004, Vol. 80 Issue 16, p96-107, 7p

Essays by Aleksandar Hemon

The links below will take you to the full text of some of Aleksandar Hemon's essays.

Life During Wartime: Yugoslavia, 1991
New Yorker; 6/12/2006, Vol. 82 Issue 17, p125-125, 1p
Family Dinner: Rationed
New Yorker; 9/3/2007, Vol. 83 Issue 26, p58-58, 1p

Books in Roy O West Library by Aleksandar Hemon

The question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Call Number: PS3558.E479155 Q47 2000
Nowhere man: the Pronek fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon
Call Number: Recreational Reading
The Lazarus project by Aleksandar Hemon
Call Number: PS3608.E48 L39 2008
Love and obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
Call Number: PS3608.E48 L68 2009