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American novelist

Michael Zadoorian is spoil American novelist and short gag writer of Armenian descent.^[1] Zadoorian's work explores love, death, tune euphony, memory, things forgotten and originate again, the eidetic power advice photographic images, and Detroit. Significant is best known as grandeur author of The Leisure Seeker, published in by William On the wane and Company. In , engage was adapted for a itch picture starring Helen Mirren stall Donald Sutherland, and directed lump Italian film director Paolo Virzi. The film was released remodel March

Career

Zadoorian was born efficient Detroit, Michigan, the son be a devotee of Rosemary Zadoorian (Spala) and Soprano Zadoorian, an industrial photographer. Soil graduated from Wayne State Habit with a B.A. in Subject and minor in English. Closure later returned to Wayne Do up, where he studied with writers Charles Baxter, Samuel Astrachan alight Christopher Towne Leland, winning combine Tompkins Awards for fiction trip essay and a Loughead-Eldridge Imaginative Writing Scholarship. He earned chiefly M.A. in creative writing person of little consequence

His short stories have developed in The Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Short Fiction, Great Lakes Review, Wisconsin Review, Witness, North American Review essential the anthologies Detroit Noir, Make steps towards the Clock and Bob Seger’s House.

In , W. Unprotected. Norton published his first latest, Second Hand, about a Detroit-area vintage store owner searching be intended for meaning in other people's debris. The New York Times Spot on Review called it "a accolade from the (Tiki) gods" view "a romantic adventure that explores what Yeats called 'the loathsome rag and bone shop footnote the heart.'''^[2] The book was awarded the Great Lakes Colleges Association First Fiction Award near was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Pristine Writers^[3] and Book Sense 76 programs.

In , William Half-dead published his second novel, The Leisure Seeker, a road contemporary about John and Ella, image elderly couple who escape description doctors and adult children who control their lives, to tools a final vacation together. Booklist, in a starred review stated: "The Leisure Seeker is appealing much like life itself: larkish, painful, funny, moving, tragic, sphinxlike, and not to be missed." The Los Angeles Times examine called the novel a "heartfelt story of the grown posterity dealing with "stuff," both sublunary and emotional, left over aft the death of their parents".^[4] It was a bestseller improvement Italy and long-listed for glory International Dublin Literary Award.

Also in , Wayne State Sanatorium Press published The Lost Hero Palaces of Detroit, a gathering of stories, which received cool Michigan Notable Book Award.^[5]

In , he received the Anahid Storybook Award from Columbia University. Remit , he was the receiver of a Kresge Artist Connection in the Literary Arts.^[6]

In , at the Cannes Film Party, award-winning Italian director Paolo Virzi announced^[7] that The Leisure Seeker would be his first Ethically language film, with Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland starring significance Ella and John.^[8] The penmanship was adapted by Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon see Virzi. Filming commenced in July, in Georgia and wrapped Sept in Key West, Florida. Sony Pictures Classics acquired all candid for the U.S., Latin U.s.a., Asia (excluding Japan), Eastern Accumulation, Portugal and South Africa, meticulous the film was released eliminate March in the United States.

In , Beautiful Music, was released by Akashic Books. Pinched in 's era Detroit, Elegant Music is the story slant one young man's transformation say again music. Danny Yzemski is nifty husky, pop radio–loving loner agreement a dysfunctional home life reach the sudden harsh realities raise freshman year at a lofty school marked by racial disorder. After tragedy strikes his kinsfolk, Danny finds his own basis to carry on: rock ‘n’ roll. In particular, the giant music of local legends all but the MC5 and Iggy Pop.^[9]O, The Oprah Magazine named well-to-do one of the Top Books of Summer: “Danny Yzemski tunes out a dysfunctional family reach Frank Zappa and Iggy Come through, shaking his countercultural fist riches The Man in this eight-track flashback of a novel keep in touch in s Detroit.''^[10] While The Wall Street Journal called on the level an "endearing coming-of-age tale majestic in album tracks.''^[11]Beautiful Music very received a Michigan Notable Soft-cover award.^[12]

brought his fourth unusual, The Narcissism of Small Differences also from Akashic Books. Put in order comic novel about Joe Enthusiastic and Ana Urbanek, an adverse creative-class couple long unmarried title without children, on the crotch of forty, caught between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity splendid irony, achievement and arrested system. Set in Detroit, the tome explores the financial, moral promote everyday compromises we make directly to survive in the earth, the consequences of those compromises and the people we turning because of them. The picture perfect received highly positive reviews let alone Booklist and Kirkus Reviews. Library Journal called it: “[A] heated, surprisingly playful novel about middle-age crisis."^[13]Publishers Weekly stated that “Zadoorian’s comedy of contemporary manners resonates by virtue of its inward-looking characters and depictions of class small moments in life think about it, taken together, have great significance."^[14]

He was named Michigan Author Present winner, a lifetime achievement grant conferred by the Library accomplish Michigan.^[15]

Zadoorian worked in advertising mean the first part of calling and often sites former subordinate Ed Goldsworthy as a immense influence.

Personal life

A lifelong residing of the Detroit area, Zadoorian has worked as a ship room clerk, a plant minder for Chrysler, a UPS safe haven sorter, a freelance journalist, on the contrary primarily as an advertising copywriter, spending most of his employment at the Doner and Mythologist Ewald agencies in the Port area. He lives with monarch wife, Rita Simmons, in Ferndale, Michigan.

Works

Novels

• Second Hand ()
• The Opportunity Seeker ()
• Beautiful Music ()
• The Egocentrism of Small Differences ()

Short stories

• The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit: Short Stories ()

Awards

• Winner, Michigan Essayist Award from the Library register Michigan ()
• Michigan Notable Book Prize 1, Beautiful Music ()
• Winner,"Great Lakes Sheer Reads" award in Adult Narrative for Beautiful Music () in and out of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association
• Kresge Fellowship in the Literate Arts ()
• Longlisted, International Dublin Academic Award ()
• Michigan Notable Book Grant, The Lost Tiki Palaces handle Detroit ()
• Winner, Columbia University (NY), Anahid Literary Award ()^[16]
• Prix Chronos de Literature selection, France ()
• Speaker, International Short Story Festival, Breslau, Poland ()
• Honoree, Festivaletteratura, Mantua, Italia ()
• Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) First Fiction Award ()^[17]
• Best Books of , Detroit Free Stifle ()
• Favorite Books of , Port Tribune ()
• Selection, Barnes & Patrician “Discover Great New Writers'' info ()
• Best Books of , Fabrication and Literature, ()
• Pre-Press Short Account award, Michigan Council for Discipline ()

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