Aleksandar Hemon Wins Pen Fiction Award

Aleksandar Hemon wins PEN fiction award

By Stephanie Butnick | Aug 10, 2011

Aleksandar Hemon reading from The Lazarus Project at the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival.

PEN American Center announced the winners of the 2011 PEN literary awards. Taking home the prestigious PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career (judged by Gary Shteyngart, no less) is Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, The Question of Bruno, and Nowhere Man.