Recorded: Thu, Apr 26, 2012
at Eat, Drink & Be Literary at BAMcafe
Moderated by Francine Prose
Presented by the National Book Foundation and Brooklyn Academy of Music
“Hemon’s writing sometimes reminds one of Nabokov’s…yet the feat of his invention exceeds the Russian’s” —The New Yorker
Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles, a series of stories about coming of age in Communist Sarajevo. He is a Guggenheim fellow as well as the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”