Indian writer Annie Zaidi is 2019 winner of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize

Zaidi is a Mumbai-based freelance writer whose work includes reportage, essays, short stories, poetry and plays

Economy:-Indian essayist Annie Zaidi was on Wednesday reported as the 2019 victor of the $100,000 Nine Dots Prize, a renowned book prize made to grant creative reasoning that tends to contemporary issues far and wide.

Mumbai-based Zaidi, an independent author whose work incorporates reportage, articles, short stories, verse and plays, won for her entrance Bread, Cement, Cactus’ joining journal and reportage to investigate ideas of home and having a place established as far as she can tell of contemporary life in India.

What truly spoke to me about the Nine Dots Prize was the manner in which it urges contestants to think without fringes or restrictions. My work has frequently traversed types, crossing among diary and news coverage, and this opportune yet wide-open inquiry urged us to approach it with techniques that were similarly far-extending, said the 40-year-old victor.

Presently in its second cycle, the prize provoked participants to respond to the inquiry Is there still no spot like home?’ in a 3,000-word article. The victor of the Nine Dots Prize is upheld to form their reaction into a full-length book, which is distributed by Cambridge University Press (CUP), and allowed the chance to spend a term at the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University.

I had been progressing in the direction of an also themed undertaking for some time yet didn’t have the budgetary, or even mental, data transmission to do it equity. The Prize will enable me to commit time to the examination of this inquiry, which is of basic significance in the cutting edge world and it will help subsidize the essential research trips, which, as a consultant, is something I acknowledge tremendously, said Zaidi, who deals with fiction, contents and segments for magazines and papers.

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