Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the novels The Lazarus Project --which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller--and The Making of Zombie Wars , as well as several books of short stories: The Question of Bruno ; Nowhere Man , which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles . He has also written the essay collections The Book of My Lives and My Parents / This Does Not...See more

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the novels The Lazarus Project --which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller--and The Making of Zombie Wars , as well as several books of short stories: The Question of Bruno ; Nowhere Man , which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles . He has also written the essay collections The Book of My Lives and My Parents / This Does Not Belong to You . Among other accolades, he has received a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He cowrote the script for The Matrix Resurrections and produces music as Cielo Hemon. He teaches at Princeton University. See less