Aleksandar HemonBorn in Sarajevo, Aleksandar Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. His work now appears regularly in "The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review," and "Best American Short Stories," He is the author of "The Question of Bruno" and "Nowhere Man," which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hemon was awarded a agenius granta from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. Riverhead will publish Hemonas next book, "Love and Obstacles," in 2009.
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