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Radio 3,12 mins
Aleksandar Hemon discusses how feelings of having a fractured identity have influenced his work
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Anne McElvoy talks to Aleksandar Hemon, the Bosnian-born writer who some have been comparing to Nabokov and Conrad. His latest work, The Book of My Lives, is his first venture into non-fiction and it combines the feel of a fractured autobiography with a meditation on the healing power of words. Photo by Velibor Bozovic.
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