Indian writer, Annie Zaidi, on Wednesday, won the prestigious Nine Dots Prize. The Mumbai-based also won prize money worth $100,000. Zaidi is a freelance writer who does reportage, writes short stories, plays, poetry and many other things.
According to the report, Her entry Bread, Cement, Cactus which addresses the contemporary issues around the world won her the award.
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After winning the prize she told, The Indian Express and said, “What really appealed to me about the Nine Dots Prize was the way it encourages entrants to think without borders or restraints. My work has often crossed over genres, traversing between memoir and journalism, and this timely but wide-open question encouraged us to approach it with methods that were equally far-ranging.”
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Zaidi further added, “I had been working towards a similarly themed project for a while but didn’t have the financial, or even mental, bandwidth to do it justice. The Prize will allow me to dedicate time to the examination of this question, which is of critical importance in the modern world – and it will help fund the necessary research trips, which, as a freelancer, is something I appreciate hugely”.
Annie has published fiction and non-fiction work both. In 2010 also her work was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award for Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales.