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. In addition to essays, 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 that included a cash prize of $100,000 for her work Bread, Cement, Cactus — combining memoir and reportage.
Books in order of publication:
Crush: 50 Poems – 2007
Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales – 2010
The Bad Boy’s Guide To The Good Indian Girl – 2011
Love Stories # 1 to 14 – 2012
Gulab – 2014
Unbound 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing – 2015
Prelude to a Riot – 2019
Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation – 2020