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S1, E14 - Tanuja Desai Hidier
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TANUJA DESAI HIDIER (thisistanuja.com) is an author/singer-songwriter and innovator of the ‘booktrack’, and was selected this year to be a Good Morning America Inspiration List headliner for ABC’s network-wide project for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021.
Her pioneering debut BORN CONFUSED, considered to be the first South Asian American YA novel, was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and was hailed by Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone Magazine, and Paste as one of the greatest YA novels of all time, and this spring, as a best Asian-American book in the Los Angeles Times’s reading guide on the Asian American experience.
Tanuja’s award-winning sequel BOMBAY BLUES—deemed “a journey worth making” in a starred Kirkus review and “teeming with energy and music…a chronicle of Bombay cool” by The Hindustan Times—launched at the National Book Festival in the US and the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival in India. Bombay Blues is recipient of the South Asia Book Award.
Her album WHEN WE WERE TWINS (original songs based on Born Confused) was featured in Wired (as the first ‘booktrack’). Music video “HEPTANESIA” (from her Bombay Blues booktrack album BOMBAY SPLEEN) was a BuzzPick on rotation on MTV Indies. Tanuja also produced the DEEP BLUE SHE #MUTINY2UNITY #METOO music video/PSA: an award-winning intersectionality project featuring musical guests Anoushka Shankar & Jon Faddis, and 100+ artist/activists, mostly women of color (“the ‘We Are The World’ of our times” —Outlook Magazine).
Tanuja wrote the foreword to the recently released Untold: Defining Moments of the Uprooted (Mango & Marigold Press).
Tanuja serves on the Board of Directors of The Telling Room, whose mission is to empower youth, including immigrants and refugees, through writing and share their voices with the world. She is currently working on her next book/album/video project. Please visit www.ThisIsTanuja.com/blog/ for resources on how to please help with the Covid crisis in India (please note: though the #BooksForHope auction has now closed, you can still donate directly here).
Thanks to Tanuja for allowing 5AQ to play "Heptanesia" from her album BOMBAY SPLEEN at the end of the podcast.
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