Aleksandar Hemon

ZANIMANJE: Pisac.

DATUM I MJESTO ROĐENJA:

Sarajevo, 1965.

ŠKOLSKA SPREMA:

Diplomirao na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu, M.A. na Northwestern University, USA.

NAGRADE:

Nagrada National Magazine za članke u The New Yorkeru 2009.
Nagrada St. Francis College Literary za knjigu Love and Obstacles 2009.
Finalist u dodjeli nagrade National Book Award National Book Critics Circle Award 2008.
Dobitnik “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation 2004.
Dobitnik Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.
Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003.
Dobitnik John C. Zacharis First Book Award časopisa Ploughshares 2001.
Awarded The PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career in 2011.
Finalist for the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism (for “The Aquarium”)