{"id":744,"date":"2009-10-23T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=744"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:12","slug":"library-speaker-series-aleksander-hemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2009\/10\/23\/library-speaker-series-aleksander-hemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Speaker Series &#8211; Aleksander Hemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2009\/10\/SashaLiverpoolFootballJersey_Veba11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2009\/10\/SashaLiverpoolFootballJersey_Veba11.jpg\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou are invited to the University Libraries second Speaker Series for 2009-2010.  Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient, Aleksandar Hemon will discuss his prize winning work, <em>The Lazarus Project<\/em>, on <strong>Tuesday,October 27. 6:00 p.m. in the Crown Center Auditorium<\/strong>, Lake Shore Campus. Hemon&#8217;s works also include three collections of short stories:  <em>The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man<\/em>, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and <em>Love and Obstacles<\/em>.  Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo and visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months.  While he was here, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home.  This Bosnian born, Chicago-based writer tells the stories and moral discoveries that come with displacement.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 | 6 PM<br \/>\nCROWN CENTER AUDITORIUM \u2022 LAKE SHORE CAMPUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copies of Hemon&#8217;s books will be available for purchase and signing.   RSVP to Carol Franklin 773-508-2641 or <a href=\"mailto:cfrankl@luc.edu\">cfrankl@luc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are invited to the University Libraries second Speaker Series for 2009-2010. Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient, Aleksandar Hemon will discuss his prize winning work, The Lazarus Project, on Tuesday,October 27. 6:00 p.m. in the Crown Center Auditorium, Lake Shore Campus. Hemon&#8217;s works also include three collections of short stories: The Question of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}