Abdi Nazemian

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Abdi Nazemian
Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction
(2015)

Abdi Nazemian (born 1976) is an

Debut Fiction at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.[1]

Career

Nazemian is a Choate Rosemary Hall alumnus. It was at Choate that he first wanted to become a writer. Nazemian continued his education at Columbia University and then at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received an MBA.[2]

Since, Nazemian has also worked as a screenwriter,[3] including the television shows Ordinary Joe, Almost Family and The Village, and the films The Artist's Wife, Menendez: Blood Brothers, Beautiful Girl, Celeste in the City and The Quiet. As head of development for Water's End Productions, Nazemian has served as an executive producer or associate producer on numerous films, including Call Me By Your Name, Little Woods, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, It Happened in L.A., The Price, and The House of Tomorrow.

Literary work

His debut young adult novel, The Authentics, was released in 2017 by

Madonna, was released in 2019, again by Balzer + Bray.[5] It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the hundred best young adult novels of all time,[6] received a Stonewall Honor and a nomination for the Audie Awards.[7] His fourth novel, The Chandler Legacies, which is inspired by his time at boarding school, was published in 2022 and his 2023 YA novel Only This Beautiful Moment was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Young Adult Literature.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Need to Know: Iranian-American Writer Abdi Nazemian". Out, June 9, 2015.
  2. ^ "Columbia Spectator 8 May 1996 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  3. Huffington Post
    , May 31, 2014.
  4. ^ "The Authentics, by Abdi Nazemian". Kirkus Reviews, May 24, 2017.
  5. ^ Needle, Chael (October 8, 2019). "Abdi Nazemian: Cover Story". A&U. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "The 100 Best YA Books of All Time". Time. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
  7. ^ "2020 Audie Award Finalists". Audible. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  8. them.
    March 27, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.

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