Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon
Hemon in 2017
Born (1964-09-09) September 9, 1964
Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation
Nationality
Alma materUniversity of Sarajevo, Northwestern University
Period2000–present
Literary movementPostmodernism
Website
aleksandarhemon.com

Aleksandar Hemon (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

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.

Hemon is also a musician, distributing his Electronica work under the pseudonym "Cielo Hemon."