Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Aleksandar Hemon — Bosniak Writer born on September 09, 1964,

Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written several books: The Making of Zombie Wars ; Behind the Glass Wall ; The Book of My Lives ; Love and Obstacles: Stories ; The Lazarus Project: A Novel , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was named as a New York Times Notable Book and New York magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year; Nowhere Man , also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Question of Bruno: Stories . He frequently publishes in The New Yorker, and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani... (wikipedia)

For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

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