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	Aleksandar Hemon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1964, to Ukrainian father and Serbian mother.
		Hemon was awarded a "Genius" Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004.
		Hemon has a bi-weekly column called "Hemonwood" that he writes in Bosnian language for a magazine BH Dani (BH Days) in Sarajevo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleksandar_Hemon (283 words)

	Books \| Brave new words
		Hemon was cut off from his family and friends who were still trapped in Bosnia as the blood began to flow.
		Hemon - or Sasha as everyone calls him - is an engineer's son whose family always spoke Serbo-Croat (Bosnian, as it is now called in post-war Bosnia) and still do in their present exile.
		Hemon believes he is a better writer now in English than he ever was in Bosnian, because of what he has experienced in between: the destruction of his country and life in exile.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3983471-99930,00.html (3369 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		Hemon goes on to muse that he never has writer's block and doesn't write for months at a time (except for his weekly column for a Bosnian publication and the occasional magazine piece).
		Although Hemon's lovely wry prose is nowhere the equal of the feverish pitch of Nabokov's stern poetry, there is a similar sense in his writing of a visceral struggle with language.
		In "Nowhere Man," Hemon describes it as "pleasant soul pain, when you are at peace with your woeful life, which allows you to enjoy this very moment with abandon." Perhaps this is why the writer, when asked to remember, prefers a convenient amnesia, living in the now as opposed to then.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/1931.html (2184 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		In Chicago, Hemon worked at anything he could get: as a kitchen helper and a bike messenger; he was happy to find a job in a bookshop for a while.
		Hemon's publisher brackets him with Nabokov and Kundera, and in some senses both comparisons are justified.
		Hemon gets away with his game playing in two ways: by consistently making sentences that hoard surprises; and by demonstrating that reality throws up as many impossibilities as any acrobatic flight of fantasy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,3986692,00.html (746 words)

	Books: The Eyes Have It (Memphis Flyer . 06-19-00)
		In 1992, Aleksandar Hemon was 28 years old, a writer on the rise in what was Yugoslavia, and guest of the U.S. on a goodwill tour for up-and-coming foreign authors.
		But Hemon's literary mentor, a professor of English and nationally recognized Shakespeare scholar, remained -- and served: as apologist for Radovan Karadzic; as spokesman denying reports of Serb death camps; and as mastermind behind the bombing of Sarajevo's treasured, leading library.
		Hemon doesn't push the question in the book's longest story, the frankly autobiographical "Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls," just as he doesn't push for acceptance of the unacceptable within the darker, recent chapters of European history.
	weeklywire.com /ww/06-19-00/memphis_book.html (644 words)

	Amazon.com: Nowhere Man: Books: Aleksandar Hemon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hemon plunges into the inner world of the observant Pronek, making ordinary events seem extraordinary through the sheer power of his detailed descriptions as his protagonist navigates the war-torn land that was once Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia and the wilds of Chicago in the 1990s.
		Hemon is stingingly accurate in his portrayal of the small, pivotal moments of youth: Pronek resorting to sliced onions to make himself cry at his grandmother's funeral, his first bungling effort at sex, his noisy rock band and his humiliating stint as a soldier.
		Hemon tries to explain this in the novel by saying, "The hard part in writing a narrative of someone's life is choosing from the abundance of details and microevents, all of them equally significant, or equally insignifincant." That may be so but the story (inlcuding the bizarre last chapter) leaves too much unsaid.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385499248?v=glance (2528 words)

	BOMB Magazine: ALEKSANDAR HEMON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Set in and around his native Sarajevo, his stories struggle with a world abruptly changing, and his characters–a boy who suspects his father is a Soviet spy, a young woman caught in the siege, a down-on-his-luck émigré writer watching the conflict on TV–quickly come to understand how mutable the truth can be.
		Considering his background–a former journalist and writer, Hemon emigrated to the States in 1991–this world of unpredictability is not surprising.
		Oft compared to Nabokov, and not solely because he writes in an adopted language, Hemon’s pitch-perfect diction and virtuosic command of the English language are shocking only in that you wish others wrote so well, and with such zeal for formal challenge.
	bombsite.com /hemon/hemon.html (400 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1964.
		Hemon found himself unable to writer in Serbo-Croatian.
		Hemon's second book, Nowhere Man. is forthcoming from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in September 2002.
	www.pshares.org /Authors/authordetails.cfm?prmauthoriD=687 (177 words)

	Nowhere Man by Alexandar Hemon - read review
		Hemon, a Sarajevo native who didn't begin writing in English until 1995, achieves immense power by keeping his sentence structure simple, acutely observing the minutiae of Jozef's life, meticulously selecting images which are both visually and emotionally memorable, then firing them at us in a staccato series of flashes.
		Aleksandar Hemon (HAY-mun) was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1964.
		Hemon laboriously expanded his knowledge of English, using Nabokov's Lolita as his key to unlocking the language.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/hemon.htm (540 words)

	Aleksandar Hemon interviewed on official website of Laura Hird
		Sarajevo native Aleksander Hemon learned the meaning of all three words when he arrived in Chicago in January 1992 on a US government-sponsored goodwill junket for Yugoslav artists and writers, the very day his city came under siege.
		Not that Hemon necessarily agrees with the Joyce analogy.
		Hemon, in his mid-30s, is a handsome, athletic-looking individual with the buzz cut and demeanour of an intellectual Navy Seal.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/aleksandarhemon.html (1452 words)

	Hemon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hemon (or Hemionu) (2589–2570 BC) is believed to be the architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.
		He was a relative of Khufu, the Old Kingdom pharaoh whose pyramid it is. Archeologists have found mentions of Hemon with titles roughly translated as Master of works or Vizier.
		His tomb lies close to Khufu's in the pyramid, and contains reliefs with his image on them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hemon (110 words)

	aleksandarhemon.com
		Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man, ÒNow here's reason to get excited: a true work of art that's as vast and mysterious as life itself.
		Hemon, in just two books, and in just two years, has quickly become essential in the way that, say, Nabokov is essential.
		[With The Question of Bruno] Hemon proved himself as inventive a writer as Nabokov or Salman Rushdie.
	www.randomhouse.com /nanatalese/hemon (184 words)

	village voice > books > Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon by Joy Press
		Aleksandar Hemon has the kind of backstory legends are made of: Boy grows up in Bosnia, becomes journalist, travels to U.S. on government goodwill tour.
		Hemon is captivated by characters who leave a trail of contradictory myths in their wake.
		Hemon deploys a confusing mix of narrators, tones, and chronology.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0238,press,38388,10.html (895 words)

	Amazon.de: The Question of Bruno: Stories (Vintage International (Paperback)): English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A man buys his son a portable telegraph set, and the two communicate in Morse code in the privacy of their own home--but later the father is arrested for espionage, and as Tito finally dies, he too languishes on his deathbed, weakly sucking a banana.
		It's also the sort of tight close-up that Hemon loves (the camera and the television are dominant images, as one might expect from a writer who resorts to CNN to find out what's happening at home).
		I assume this is because Hemon seems to have so much life experience (having grown up in Sarajevo and moved to America when Serbs took over the city) and because he had to teach himself English and so everything is fresh and loaded with meaning and mystery.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375727000 (1470 words)

	Salon Books \| More spilled spaghetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Aleksandar Hemon attributes his astonishing mastery of English (he arrived in America eight years ago with only a rudimentary knowledge of the language) to a job he had canvassing for Greenpeace in Chicago, the city that he now loves and calls home.
		And Hemon has been good to English, as well, as the recent publication of his short-story collection, "The Question of Bruno," conclusively proves.
		Salon reached Hemon by phone at his home in Chicago, where he regards the publication of "The Question of Bruno" with unflappable aplomb.
	www.salon.com /books/int/2000/04/27/hemon_interview (830 words)

	Voice Literary Supplement: Writers on the Verge
		Alice Sebold's unpublished first novel was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her memoir about her rape, Lucky, was published last year; Rick Perlstein and Hemon are both journalists; and Steven Johnson is the editor of one of the best Web sites around.
		What: For Hemon's characters, largely exiles, espionage is an existential condition; they cannot live fully in their present nor in the past.
		Hemon attributes his attention to detail partly to the war and his newfound sense of the fragility of the body, but it also points toward an Eastern European's distrust of a pure or glamorized accounting, in fiction or history.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/168/writers.shtml (3546 words)

	Aleksandar Hemon (Bold Type Magazine)
		It is tempting to try to understand Aleksandar Hemon's writing simply by trying to understand his biography.
		In this issue of Bold Type, on the eve of the publication of The Question of Bruno, Hemon discusses literature and writing--their qualities, their purpose, their craft--with another young writer, one who has recently been through the thrills and joys, dangers and transformations of publishing his own first book.
		It is, of course, absurd to deny the importance of Judaism to Englander's writing, at least as absurd as it would be deny the relevance of Hemon's identity to his work.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0600/hemon (491 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Question of Bruno: Stories: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is interesting that Hemon, writing in a language that is not his mother tongue, is able to utilize the english language in a way that makes the greatest impact upon the reader.
		Hemon never returned to Bosnia, however, because the Bosnian-Serb army had surrounded his hometown on the very day he planned to return.
		Hemon's writing is vivid, intelligent and darkly humorous, his style marked by keen description and uniquely discordant turns of phrase that sometimes seem to reflect his alienation from the English language in which he writes as much as his remarkable skill as a writer.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375727000 (1486 words)

	DesiJournal.com - Nowhere Man by Alexsandar Hemon
		Alexsandar Hemon’s is the kind of story that would in itself make for a great telling.
		Hemon tries to explain this in the novel by saying, "The hard part in writing a narrative of someone’s life is choosing from the abundance of details and microevents, all of them equally significant, or equally insignificant." That may be so but the story (including the bizarre last chapter) leaves too much unsaid.
		The greatest strength of Nowhere Man is Hemon’s ability to describe the restlessness that comes from forced exile.
	www.desijournal.com /book.asp?articleid=24 (640 words)

	Powell's Books - Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
		Hemon, in just two books, and in just two years (if you haven't read The Question of Bruno, do), has quickly become essential in the way that, say, Nabokov is essential....This tender, devastating book is evidence indeed that Hemon is a writer of rare artistry and depth."
		A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia’s answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992—just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee.
		"Hemon, who possesses a diabolical sense of humor and a wickedly visceral sensibility...considers the precariousness of existence, the continual revision of identity and dreams that immigrant life demands, and the ever-present shadow of death."
	www.powells.com /biblio/7-0375727027-0 (540 words)

	"Nowhere Man" by Aleksandar Hemon - Salon
		You sense that Hemon has always been the kind of person who, say, when writing a sex scene, is less interested in ecstasy than he is in the stray pimple, a skinny girl's "asymmetrical, cross-eyed breasts" and all varieties of bodily failure and imperfection.
		The story in "Nowhere Man" is told by several voices: an unnamed fellow Bosnian, an American who meets Jozef in a study program in the Ukraine and perhaps someone else -- things get a bit enigmatic toward the novel's end.
		I can't claim to have a line on what Hemon's doing with an ominous, Poe-like running motif of a scrabbling mouse, a man driven mad by the sound of this creature and, in the novel's coda, a mysterious Russian spy of sinister reputation and theatrical charm.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/10/10/hemon/index.html (517 words)

	In re Estate of Olivette D. Hemon
		Roland E. Hemon, of Dover, and Heloise Hemon Davis, of Averill, Vermont (Mr.
		BRODERICK, J. Appellants Roland Hemon (Roland) and Heloise Hemon Davis (Heloise) appeal the Strafford County Probate Court's (Cassavechia, J.) denial of Roland's motion challenging the probate court's exercise of jurisdiction under RSA 464-A:3 (Supp.
		In May 1984, Armand Hemon (Armand) and Heloise filed a petition for guardianship over their mother, Olivette Hemon (Olivette).
	www.state.nh.us /judiciary/supreme/opinions/1998/hemon.htm (1522 words)

	Scoop: Writers and Readers Week: Aleksander Hemon
		Author Aleksander Hemon set out to master English after war in his home Sarajevo left him stranded in the United States.
		Hemon is in New Zealand for the NZ Post Writers and Readers week.
		He spoke to Scoop about being compared to Vladimir Nabokov, working with English as a second language and a language of migrants, the relationship between himself and his characters and the subject of current work.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0603/S00173.htm (825 words)

	Louis Hemon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Louis Hemon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Louis+Hemon (115 words)

	Amazon.com: The Question of Bruno : Stories (Vintage International): Books: Aleksandar Hemon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In fact, all of the stories in this book seem to rest on a certain acid wit and, inasmuch as most of them are (semi)autobiographical, a great deal of mild, but honest self-deprecation.
		Hemon's childhood reminiscences written in story form are very skillfully rendered.
		I'll refrain from making bold pronouncements about Hemon's place in world literature or even post-Yugoslav-war-in-Bosnia-trauma literature; these stories are simply well-written, interesting and often funny.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375727000?v=glance (2311 words)

	ENGLISH
		Source: " PATER HEMON ('Our Father') - 63 versions of the Lord's Prayer in 41 Languages Ancient and Modern, with historical and linguistic notes by Paul D. Hugon", Leon R. Ervin, Publisher, Los Angeles, California, 1936.
		Source: "The LORD'S PRAYER in Five Hundred Languages comprising the leading languages and their principal dialects throughout the world with the places where spoken - with a preface by Reinhold Rost, C.I.E, LL.D., PH.D.", Gilbert & Rivington Limited, London, 1905.
		Source: "The Lord's Prayer in the Principal Languages, Dialects and Versions of the World, printed in Type and Vernaculars of the Different Nations, compiled and published by G.F. Bergholtz", Chicago, Illinois, 1884.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/JPN-english.html (1339 words)

	Amen-online: The Our Father
		It was first written down in Greek (Pater Hemon), and it has since then been translated to nearly all languages.
		The prayer is quoted in the Bible (Gospel of Matthew, chapter 6, verses 9-13).
		kai afes hemin ta ofeilemata hemon, hos kai hemeis
	www.amen-online.org /b_pater.htm (608 words)

	Aleksandar Hemon Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The story "Islands" from this collection was included in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999.
		by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Constance Garnett (Translator), Aleksandar Hemon (Introduction by)
		First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Aleksandar_Hemon (333 words)

	NPR : Slate's Books: The Worst Book Ever?
		NPR : Slate's Books: The Worst Book Ever?
		Day to Day, July 29, 2004 · Slate book reviewer Aleksandar Hemon reviews what he calls the worst book he ever read voluntarily -- A Movie...and a Book, by first-time novelist Daniel Wagner.
		Hemon talks to NPR's Madeleine Brand about how the book reveals unfortunate trends in publishing.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3802473 (135 words)

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