Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon , born in 1964 with Sarajevo, lives with the the United States.

Aleksandar Hemon has origins Ukrainian by his/her father, and a Serb mother . Its back grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came from Ukraine in Bosnia before the First World War, when the two countries belonged to the Empire Austro-Hungarian.

He follows studies to the university of Sarajevo where he obtains a license in literature in 1990. He leaves for Chicago in 1992, but by knowing very little the English language. Not managing either to write in its native language, the Bosnian , it decides to learn English over five years.

In 1995, it starts to write in English, and its texts appear in The New Yorker , Esquire, The Paris Review , etc

Its first book, The Question off Bruno (2000) translated into France by the Editions Robert Laffont ( Of the spirit in the morons , 2000) mark a very original literary figure. Mix news, encyclopedic notes, images of files and autobiographical memories, it however is very built and very touching. He testifies inter alia war in Yugoslavia. He meets a sharp international success quickly.

In 2002, it publishes Nowhere Man , translated by Robert Laffont under the title the hope is a ridiculous thing (2003)