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Aleksandar Hemon
Writer | Class of 2004
Experimenting with an unusual array of forms, multiple narrative voices, and settings that shift from Sarajevo to Chicago to Kiev to Shanghai.

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Title
Writer
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Age
40 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Published September 28, 2004
ABOUT ALEKSANDAR'S WORK
Aleksandar Hemon is an author whose fiction grapples with the traumas of exile and ethnic conflict. Hemon’s Nowhere Man (2002), a novel-in-stories, follows the circuitous path of a young Bosnian refugee with an appropriately circuitous narrative form; the work’s seven sections shift back and forth between first-person narrators and move freely in setting from Chicago to Sarajevo to Kiev to Shanghai. Through this interspersing of multiple voices, locales, and time periods, Hemon creates an expansive fictional universe, one in which disparate events and memories are salvaged from the sweep of history and presented with humor and compassion. In similar experimental fashion, the stories collected in The Question of Bruno (2000) take such varied forms as a series of undelivered letters and a child’s spy fantasy footnoted with “facts” from The Greatest Spies of World War II. Using his adopted language, English, Hemon dramatizes with wit and dexterity the cultural displacement that he and his characters have endured. His voice invigorates American literature and succeeds in conveying moving stories from the otherwise incommunicable experience of war.

BIOGRAPHY
Aleksandar Hemon received a B.A. (1990) from the University of Sarajevo and an M.A. (1995) from Northwestern University. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hemon traveled to the United States in 1992 as a young journalist on a government-sponsored cultural visa. Unable to return due to the violent unrest of the Bosnian War (1992–1995), he settled as a refugee in Chicago. He is the author of two books and numerous works of short fiction that have been published in Esquire, Granta, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker.



亚历山大-赫蒙
作家｜2004级
实验不同寻常的形式，多种叙事声音，以及从萨拉热窝到芝加哥到基辅到上海的环境变化。

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标题
作家
地点
芝加哥，伊利诺伊州
年龄
获奖时为40岁
重点领域
小说和非小说写作
发表于2004年9月28日
关于阿列克桑达尔的作品
Aleksandar Hemon是一位作家，他的小说涉及到流亡和种族冲突的创伤。赫蒙的《无处安放的人》（2002年）是一部小说中的小说，以适当的迂回叙事形式讲述了一个年轻的波斯尼亚难民的曲折经历；作品的七个部分在第一人称叙述者之间来回转换，并在芝加哥、萨拉热窝、基辅和上海之间自由移动。通过这种多种声音、地点和时间段的穿插，赫蒙创造了一个广阔的虚构世界，其中不同的事件和记忆被从历史的长河中打捞出来，并以幽默和同情的方式呈现。以类似的实验方式，收集在《布鲁诺问题》（The Question of Bruno）（2000年）中的故事采取了不同的形式，如一系列未交付的信件和一个儿童的间谍幻想，并以《二战中最伟大的间谍》中的 "事实 "作为注脚。赫蒙用他所采用的语言--英语，机智而灵巧地表现了他和他的人物所经历的文化迁移。他的声音为美国文学注入了活力，并成功地传达了来自无法沟通的战争经历的动人故事。

个人简历
亚历山大-赫蒙在萨拉热窝大学获得学士学位（1990年），在西北大学获得硕士学位（1995年）。赫蒙出生于波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的萨拉热窝，1992年作为一名年轻的记者持政府资助的文化签证前往美国。由于波斯尼亚战争（1992-1995）的暴力动荡，他无法回国，作为难民在芝加哥定居。他写了两本书和许多短篇小说，发表在《Esquire》、《Granta》、《Ploughshares》和《The New Yorker》上。