Karen Dionne Headlining Night for Notables, Michael Zadoorian Named 2022 Michigan Author Award, & 2023 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour
 Karen
Dionne Headlining Night for Notables
2-time Michigan Notable Books recipient
Karen Dionne will be headlining the upcoming the Night for Notables reception on Saturday April 22, 2023 at the Library of Michigan.
Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel
The Marsh King’s Daughter published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the US and in 26 other languages, and
The Wicked Sister, also from G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
The Marsh King’s Daughter was named one of the
best books of 2017 by iBooks, Hudson Booksellers, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel,
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
The Irish Independent,
Library Journal,
Shelf Awareness, and many other booksellers and reviewers, and is soon to be a
major motion picture starring Ben Mendelsohn and Daisy Ridley.
Both
The Marsh King’s Daughter and
The Wicked Sister were selected as
Michigan Notable Books by the
Library of Michigan. The Wicked Sister was also chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Thrillers of 2020.
Hear Karen Dionne's keynote address and meet authors from the 2023 Michigan Notable Books list at Night for Notables. Find registration
information and other details for the Night for Notables reception on the Library of Michigan Foundation's website www.libraryofmichiganfoundation.com/mnbnightfornotables of
by contacting Tricia Headley at
HeadleyP@Michigan.gov.
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 Michael
Zadoorian Named 2022 Michigan Author Award Recipiant
The Library of Michigan and Michigan Center for the Book are pleased to announce Michael
Zadoorian as the recipient of the 2022 Michigan Author Award.
Zadoorian is the critically acclaimed author of four novels, including the international bestseller, The
Leisure Seeker, which was made into a
Sony Pictures Classics film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. His other books are Second Hand, Beautiful Music, and The
Narcissism of Small Differences as well as a story collection, The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit.
He is a recipient of a Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Literary Arts, the Columbia University Anahid Literary award, the Great Lakes Colleges
Association New Writers award, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA) Great Lakes Great Reads award.
Zadoorian’s The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit and Beautiful
Music were both honored as Michigan
Notable Books by the Library of Michigan. His work has appeared in The Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Short Fiction, Witness, Great Lakes Review, North American Review, Literary
Hub, The Millions, and Huffington Post, and has been translated into over twenty languages worldwide.
Zadoorian is a lifelong resident of the Detroit area, initially growing up in northwest Detroit. He earned his bachelor’s degree in communications
and master’s degree in English, creative writing from Wayne State University. He lives with his wife, Rita Simmons in Ferndale, Michigan.
Find a complete
press release announcement on the Library of Michigan's website. Learn more about the
Michigan Author Award program on the Michigan Center for the Book site:
www.Michigan.gov/MCFB.
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Books and short story collection by Michael Zadoorian.
2023 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour
This week the Library of Michigan has started rolling out the tour dates and locations for the 2023 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour
featuring authors from the
2023 Michigan Notable Books list touring libraries across the state. Look to see if a Notable Books author is visiting your community by looking on the
Tour page of the Michigan Notable Books website:
www.Michigan.gov/NotableBooks.
Host libraries are encouraged to take advantage of the
promotional materials available for promoting their author visit that are on the
Michigan Notable Books website. Promotional items include social media graphics, downloadable/printable tabletop signage, bookmarks, brochures, and other useful items. Please direct questions about the 2023 Michigan Notable
Books Author Tour to 517-335-1477 or
Michigan-Notable-Books@michigan.gov.
Photos from the 2022 Michigan Notable Books Author Tour.
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