UNT welcomes acclaimed novelist Aleksandar Hemon for IAA Artist-in-Residence reception and events

Friday, October 24, 2014 - 17:48
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What: University of North Texas' Artist-in-Residence Aleksandar Hemon will be in Denton for a welcome reception, Q&A session, and a reading and book signing event. Hemon, author of National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project, has written five novels and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He was the 2004 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and is in residency at UNT for the 2014-15 school year.

When/Where:

  • Public welcome reception is 6-8 p.m. Nov. 4 (Tuesday) at UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton
  • Q&A session is at 4 p.m. Nov. 5 (Wednesday) in Willis Library's Forum room, 1506 Highland Ave., Denton
  • Reading and book signing is at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 (Wednesday) in UNT's Business Leadership Building Room 180, 1307 W. Highland St., Denton

Cost: All events are free and open to the public

Parking: Parking is free throughout downtown Denton for UNT on the Square. For the Wednesday events, parking is available in the Highland Street Garage at Avenue A and Highland Street for $2 an hour.

More information: For information, visit UNT on the Square Institute for the Advancement of the Arts and the Current Artist in Residence.

DENTON (UNT), Texas – UNT's 2014-15 Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Artist-in-Residence, acclaimed novelist Aleksandar Hemon, visits UNT for a series of public events the first week in November.

This is Hemon's second visit to UNT this fall. Hemon will also be working with UNT faculty and students as part of his year-long residency. On his first visit to UNT, he learned about the resources UNT has available to help with his research on an essay project about internationally renowned author Vladimir Nabokov, who most famously wrote Lolita.

The residency includes community events, which will start with a welcome reception from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 4 (Tuesday) at UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., Denton. Hemon will also participate in a question-and-answer session starting at 4 p.m. Nov. 5 (Wednesday) in Willis Library's Forum room, 1506 Highland Ave., Denton. At 8 p.m., he will read from his works, followed by a book signing.

Hemon's 2008 novel The Lazarus Project was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle award and National Book Award. Hemon also has written The Question of Bruno: Stories, a collection about life in Bosnia and America, and The Book of My Lives, a nonfiction book about his lives in Sarajevo and Chicago. Hemon is a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina who lives in Chicago. He has received the MacArthur Genius Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Hemon joins a list of prestigious past UNT Artists-in-Residence, which have included Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga; nationally acclaimed opera composer Jake Heggie, who wrote Ahab Symphony, which premiered at UNT in spring 2013; visual and performance artist Nick Cave, who featured brightly colored horse soundsuits at the premiere performance of Heard at UNT in spring 2012; and internationally renowned sculptor and printmaker Kiki Smith.

About the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts

Launched in 2009, the UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts (IAA) aims to showcase, support and advance excellence in the visual, performing and creative literary arts at UNT, among its faculty members and in conjunction with their renowned colleagues and collaborators. The three central components of the Institute are UNT on the Square, the IAA Faculty Fellows program and the IAA Artist-in-Residence program.

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