Mumbai-based Writer Annie Zaidi was announced as the 2019 winner of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize, an award for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues.
b. Annie Qureshi
c. Annie Zaidi
d. Annie Matthew
Details:
- She won the prize for her entry titled 'Bread, Cement, Cactus, a piece that combined memoir and reportage to explore concepts of home and belonging.
- Her proposed book, based on the prize-winning essay, will be published in May 2020 and will examine how a citizen's sense of home might collapse, or recover.
- The varied themes it will address include the politics and economics of death in India, the crossing of caste and religious lines in a marriage, and the Partition of India as a great cultural and emotional sundering.
About Annie Zaidi:
- She is a freelance writer whose work includes reportage, essays, short stories, poetry, and plays.
- She has published both fiction and non-fiction, including a collection of essays Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales and Love Stories # 1 to 14, a collection of short fiction published in 2012.
Nine Dots Prize:
- The Nine Dots Prize is sponsored by the Kadas Prize Foundation, a U.K.-registered charity, with support from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press.
- It aims to promote, engage and encourage innovative thinking so as to address problems facing the modern world.
- The prestigious book prize is awarded for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues.
- The winner receives US$100,000 to write a short book expanding on their ideas.
- Entrants are asked to answer the given question in 3,000 words.
- All entrants with a minimum of 18 years of age can write.
- Responses and the resulting book will be in English.
Question:
Q. Which Mumbai-based writer was announced as the 2019 winner of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize?
a. Annie Thomasb. Annie Qureshi
c. Annie Zaidi
d. Annie Matthew
