Aleksandar_Hemon Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is an Bosnian American fiction writer, winner of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grant, among other honors. He has written four acclaimed booksLove and Obsctacles (New YorkRiverhead Books, 2009), The Lazarus Project (New YorkRiverhead 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 #1 Book of the Year;Nowhere Man (New YorkThe Question of Bruno (New YorkThe New Yorker, and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine Dani.