Tanwi Nandini Islam
Tanaïs | |
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Born | Tanwi Nandini Islam October 5,1982 Carbondale, Illinois, United States |
Education | Vassar College (BA) Brooklyn College (MFA) |
Occupation | Writer & Perfumer |
Website | www |
Tanaïs fka Tanwi Nandini Islam is an American fiction writer, perfumer, and founder of the Brooklyn-based beauty and fragrance company TANAÏS.[1] They are of Bangladeshi descent.
Born in Illinois, they spent their childhood in various cities such as Houston, Columbia, and St. Louis, before settling in Brooklyn.[2][3] They received a BA in women's studies with a focus on performance art and Asian American studies at Vassar College and a MFA in creative writing at Brooklyn College.
Career[]
Tanaïs first worked in New York City as a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization based in Bushwick, Brooklyn to empower working class communities.[4] Later in 2006 in New Delhi, India through the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service, they started writing their first draft of their debut novel . The novel was named finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize,[5] and the Edmund White Award for debut fiction.
While writing Bright Lines, Tanaïs grew interested in olfaction and started their own botanically-based perfume and candle line Hi Wildflower Botanica.[6]
Works[]
Books[]
- 2015: Bright Lines, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0143123132
- 2022: In Sensorium: Notes For My People, Mariner Books, ISBN 978-0358381709
References[]
- ^ "Tanwi Nandini Islam Is Crafting 'Bright Lines' and 'Beautifully Universal' Scents". nbcnews.com. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "Not the Usual South Asian Muslim Suspects". www.lareviewofbooks.org/. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "From Bangladesh to Brooklyn: Tanwi Nandini Islam's 'Bright Lines'". wnyc.org. 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "Two Bangladeshi Entrepreneurs, a Generation Apart". www.nycitylens.com/. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize Shortlists Announced". www.bklynlibrary.org/. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- ^ "Get To Know New York-based Author Tanwi Nandini Islam". www.nylon.com/. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
- American people of Bangladeshi descent
- American writers of Bangladeshi descent
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women company founders
- American cosmetics businesspeople
- Vassar College alumni
- Brooklyn College alumni
- Living people
- 1982 births
- 21st-century American women writers