Aleksandar Hemon has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. He is the editor of several Best European Fiction anthologies (Dalkey Archives) and the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, and Love and Obstacles. His collection of auto-biographical essays, The Book of My Lives, is forthcoming from Farrar Straus and Giroux in fall 2012. He is at work on his next novel.