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Annie Zaidi

Annie Zaidi (born 1978) is an English-language writer from India. Her collection of essays, Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, was short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010.She also writes poetry (Crush, 2007), short stories (The Good Indian Girl, 2011), plays, and has published a novella. She won The Hindu Playwright Award in 2018 and the Nine Dots Prize in 2019 for her work Bread, Cement, Cactus.She was born in Allahabad. She and her older brother were brought up by their mother Yasmin Zaidi, a school teacher and principal. Her maternal grandfather is Padma Shri laureate Urdu writer and scholar Ali Jawad Zaidi. She currently resides in Mumbai.
Books by Annie Zaidi
  • Sleep Tight
  • Known Turf: 1
  • Who Will see the light?
  • Three Plays : Untitled 1, Jam and Name,Place,Animal,Thing
  • Bad Boys Guide to the Good Indian Girl
  • Love Story # 1 To 14
  • Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women's Writing
  • Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation
  • Prelude to a Riot: A Novel
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