Tanaïs

Tanaïs is the author of In Sensorium: Note for My People, winner of the 2022 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, and the critically acclaimed novel Bright Lines, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize. They are the recipient of residencies at MacDowell, Tin House, and Djerassi. An independent perfumer, their fragrance, beauty and design studio Tanaïs is based in New York City. They are currently working on their forthcoming novel, Stellar Smoke.

The Children of This Madness

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In The Children of this Madness, Gemini Wahhaj pens a complex tale of modern Bengalis, one that illuminates the recent histories not only of Bangladesh, but America and Iraq. Wahhaj will be joined in conversation with Tanaïs, author of In Sensorium: Notes for My People. The conversation moderated by Prof. Chaumtoli Huq (CUNY School of Law).

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