{"id":79053,"date":"2024-06-25T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/authors\/abdi-nazemian\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:05:39","slug":"abdi-nazemian","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/abdi-nazemian\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdi Nazemian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdi Nazemian was born in Tehran in 1976 and grew up in Paris, Toronto, and New York, among other places. He studied English at Columbia University and Business Administration at the University of California Los Angeles. He is a screenwriter for films and TV series, a film producer, and an author of books for young people and adults.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nazemian&#8217;s novels deal with themes such as family, queerness, and Persian culture. His debut \u00bbThe Walk-In Closet\u00ab [2014] tells the story of a young woman who pretends to be in a relationship with her gay best friend in order to conform to the social expectations of the traditional Persian family image. \u00bbLike a Love Story\u00ab [2019] is set in New York in 1989, where three teenagers try to navigate the turbulence of friendship, love and sexuality in times of the AIDS crisis. The author&#8217;s most recent work and its first publication in German translation, \u00bbOnly This Beautiful Moment\u00ab [2023], tells the story of a family in Iran and the USA across three generations. Seventeen-year-old, queer Moud travels with his father from Los Angeles to Tehran to visit his terminally ill grandfather. There he is confronted with unexpected secrets about his family that shake up everything he thought he knew about his origins and identity.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bbOnly This Beautiful Moment\u00ab was awarded the Lambda Literary Award in June 2024 as well as the Stonewall Prize for Children&#8217;s and Young Adult Literature. \u00bbThis engaging novel [&#8230;] shows how queer communities find a way to thrive across times and places\u00ab, said the jury. Nazemian won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT debut novels in 2015 with \u00bbThe Walk-In Closet\u00ab. \u00bbLike a Love Story\u00ab was a 2020 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book and was named one of the 100 best young adult books of all time by Time Magazine in 2021.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His new young adult novel, \u00bbDesert Echoes\u00ab [2024], will be published in September 2024.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":79002,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[671,657],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"class_list":["post-79053","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-iran-en","jct-origin-usa-en","jct-ilb-years-2024-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abdi Nazemian &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/abdi-nazemian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abdi Nazemian &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abdi Nazemian was born in Tehran in 1976 and grew up in Paris, Toronto, and New York, among other places. 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