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I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

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I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

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About Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021).
He frequently publishes in The New Yorker and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani.
Hemon is also a musician, distributing his Electronica work under the pseudonym "Cielo Hemon."