Annie Zaidi
Annie Zaidi writes poetry, essays, fiction, and scripts for the stage and the screen.
She is the author of City of Incident: A novel in twelve parts, and Prelude to a Riot, which won the Tata prize for fiction (2020). She is a recipient of the Nine Dots prize (2019) for an essay that she developed into Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation.
Her other books include Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, a collection of essays that was short-listed for the Crossword Book Award (non- fiction), Gulab, Love Stories # 1 to 14, and The Good Indian Girl (as co-author), and Crush.
She is also the editor of 'Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian women's Writing' and of 'Equal Halves'.
Her work has appeared in various anthologies, including Mumbai Noir; Women Changing India; India Shining, India Changing, and in literary journals like the Griffith Review, The Massachusetts Review, Big Bridge, Out of Print, and The Aleph Review.
Her work as a playwright has been performed and read in several cities. She received The Hindu Playwright Award (2018) for Untitled 1. Her radio script ‘Jam’ was named regional (South Asia) winner for the BBC’s International Playwriting Competition (2011).
She has also written and directed several short films and the documentary film, In her words: The journey of Indian women.
She is the author of City of Incident: A novel in twelve parts, and Prelude to a Riot, which won the Tata prize for fiction (2020). She is a recipient of the Nine Dots prize (2019) for an essay that she developed into Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation.
Her other books include Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, a collection of essays that was short-listed for the Crossword Book Award (non- fiction), Gulab, Love Stories # 1 to 14, and The Good Indian Girl (as co-author), and Crush.
She is also the editor of 'Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian women's Writing' and of 'Equal Halves'.
Her work has appeared in various anthologies, including Mumbai Noir; Women Changing India; India Shining, India Changing, and in literary journals like the Griffith Review, The Massachusetts Review, Big Bridge, Out of Print, and The Aleph Review.
Her work as a playwright has been performed and read in several cities. She received The Hindu Playwright Award (2018) for Untitled 1. Her radio script ‘Jam’ was named regional (South Asia) winner for the BBC’s International Playwriting Competition (2011).
She has also written and directed several short films and the documentary film, In her words: The journey of Indian women.
