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Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964) 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'' (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); ''Behind the Glass Wall'' (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); ''The Book of My Lives'' (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); ''Love and Obstacles: Stories'' (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009); ''The Lazarus Project: A Novel'' (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), 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'' (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002), also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and ''The Question of Bruno: Stories'' (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000). 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''. ==Biography== Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia, to a father of partial Ukrainian and Bosnian descent and a Bosnian mother. Hemon's great-grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came to Bosnia from Western Ukraine prior to World War I, when both countries were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo and was a published writer in former Yugoslavia by the time he was 26.〔(17th Prague Writer's Festival page: "Aleksandar Hemon," )〕 Since 1992 he has lived in the United States, where he found himself as a tourist and became stranded at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia. In the U.S. he worked as a Greenpeace canvasser, sandwich assembly-line worker, bike messenger, graduate student in English literature, bookstore salesperson, and ESL teacher. He published his first story in English, "The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders" in ''Triquarterly'' in 1995, followed "The Sorge Spy Ring," also in ''Triquarterly'' in 1996 and "Islands" in ''Ploughshares'' in 1998, and eventually "Blind Jozef Pronek" in The New Yorker in 1999. His work also eventually appeared in ''Esquire'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Best American Short Stories,'' and elsewhere. Hemon also has a bi-weekly column, written and published in Bosnian, called "Hemonwood" in the Sarajevo-based magazine, ''BH Dani'' (''BH Days''). Hemon lives with his second wife, Teri Boyd, and their daughters Ella and Esther in Chicago. The couple's second child, 1-year-old daughter Isabel, died of complications associated with a brain tumor in November 2010. Hemon published an essay, "The Aquarium," about Isabel's death in the June 13/20, 2011 issue of ''The New Yorker''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aleksandar Hemon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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