---
name: "Aleksandar Hemon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aleksandar-hemon"
fi1m_id: "aleksandar-hemon"
imdb_id: "nm3097752"
tmdb_id: 1621370
wikidata_id: "Q738114"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 September 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T02:32:17.140007+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aleksandar Hemon

## Identity

Aleksandar Hemon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aleksandar-hemon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aleksandar-hemon
- **IMDb ID:** nm3097752
- **TMDB ID:** 1621370
- **Wikidata ID:** Q738114
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Hemon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q738114, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3097752/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1621370

Writer. Born 9 September 1964 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 September 1964, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Hemon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q738114, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3097752/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1621370

## Biography

Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American author and screenwriter. Born in Sarajevo in 1964, he arrived in the United States in 1992 and began publishing short stories in English in the mid-1990s. His novels include *Nowhere Man* (2002) and *The Lazarus Project* (2008).

Hemon has worked as a screenwriter with Lana Wachowski and David Mitchell. Their collaborations include the finale of the Netflix series *Sense8* (2018) and the film *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021). He is a MacArthur Foundation fellow and professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, avclub.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), Fi1m 66, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021), Writer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-matrix-resurrections.md)
- *Love Island* (2014), Writer

## Gallery

- ![reading at Lannan Center (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4232314/gallery-127de0545c7a.jpg) reading at Lannan Center (2024) — Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Aleksandar_Hemon.1000626.jpg/1280px-Aleksandar_Hemon.1000626.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![reading at Lannan Center (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4232314/gallery-38e5c0f5c65e.jpg) reading at Lannan Center (2024) — Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Aleksandar_Hemon._1000616.jpg/1280px-Aleksandar_Hemon._1000616.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![reading at Lannan Center (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4232314/gallery-2b30b66fb311.jpg) reading at Lannan Center (2024) — Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Aleksandar_Hemon1000671.jpg/1280px-Aleksandar_Hemon1000671.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![reading at Lannan Center (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4232314/gallery-cd55ac7281f1.jpg) reading at Lannan Center (2024) — Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Aleksandar_Hemon_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Aleksandar Hemon](https://film.one/media/person/4232314/gallery-fc1481ecf0b5.jpg) Aleksandar Hemon — Slowking4, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Aleksandar_Hemon_8315708.jpg/1280px-Aleksandar_Hemon_8315708.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine 2023: Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine (won)
- Dos Passos Prize 2020: Dos Passos Prize (won)
- National Magazine Award 2012: National Magazine Award (won)
- Jan Michalski Prize 2010: Jan Michalski Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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