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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of five books including The Book of My Lives and The Lazarus Project. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award.


Sex, Violence, and Jerry Lewis: Aleksandar Hemon on the Preoccupations of His 10-Year-Old Self

"Inside that nothing there are memories, and inside those memories there are snakes."
June 13, 2019  By Aleksandar Hemon
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Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight

Aleksandar Hemon on the Problem with Civility
November 1, 2018  By Aleksandar Hemon
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Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump’s America

Aleksandar Hemon Tells the Story of Kemalemir Frashto
April 9, 2018  By Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon on the Urge to Violence in a Time of Trump

When Neighbors Turn on Each Other, It Happens Fast
February 21, 2017  By Aleksandar Hemon
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Aleksandar Hemon: Why I Didn’t Sign the Open Letter Against Trump

On writers making political news and the squirrel-pelt haired man
June 1, 2016  By Aleksandar Hemon
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