Tanuja Desai Hidier

Tanuja Desai Hidier
at the 2014 National Book Festival
Born Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Alma mater Brown University
Notable awards 1995 James Jones Literary Prize
Website
www.thisistanuja.com

Tanuja Desai Hidier is an Indian-American writer. She won the 1995 James Jones Literary Prize for Tale of a Two-Hearted Tiger.

Life

She was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Her father was from a Gujarati village, and he met her mother in medical school in Parel (South Mumbai).[1] They had an intercaste love marriage which her father's family was against but her mother's family was okay with. Her mother was one of the few women in medical school at the time.[1]

She graduated from Brown University.[2]

She collaborates with Atom Fellows, in the group T&A.

She lives in London.

Works

  • Born Confused, Scholastic Press, 2003, ISBN 9780439510110 [3]
    • Karma Girl. E-Books der Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. 14 June 2010. ISBN 978-3-641-03971-4.
    • Generazione confusa. Translated by Giancarlo Carlotti. Mondadori. 2004. ISBN 978-88-04-53057-2.
    • Tvära kast, Translated by Tony Manieri, Peder Carlsson, Publisher Damm, 2005, ISBN 9789171302113
  • Tale of a Two-Hearted Tiger
  • Megan McCafferty, ed. (18 December 2007). "Cowgirls & Indie Boys". Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42165-4.
  • Bombay Blues, Scholastic Press, 2014

Films

  • The Test (wrote and directed)
  • The Assimiliation Alphabet (co-wrote and co-directed)

References

  1. 1 2 Parbhoo, Sheryl (September 5, 2016). "Part Two: Interview with Tanuja Desai Hidier".
  2. ↑ http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/tanuja-desai-hidier-0
  3. ↑ Comerford, Lynda Brill (Dec 23, 2002). "Fall 2002 Flying Starts: Tanuja Desai Hidier". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 27 February 2014. On another level, Born Confused encapsulates the universal insecurities and identity crises experienced by young adults. “It was refreshing to write from a teen’s perspective,” says the author. “It was fun to go back and experience the shock and surprise of new discoveries. Teens aren’t as jaded as adults.”
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