Aleksandar Hemon - POSTPONED

NOTE: This event has been postponed until the fall. All ticket holders will receive a full refund. 

Aleksandar Hemon will bring his insight, experience, observation- and compelling personal story- as he joins Paul Holdengräber in conversation. 

Aleksandar Hemon was born in 1964, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1992, he came to the US as part of a month long cultural exchange program of journalists. On the day of his expected return, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was granted political asylum in the United States. One of the first stories he wrote in English, “Islands”, appeared in Best American Short Stories 1999. Hemon is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, and Love and Obstacles. His collection of auto-biographical essays, The Book of My Lives, was published in March 2013, and his new book The Making of Zombie Wars comes out this year. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughters.  

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