<span style="color: #222222;">Indian writer Annie Zaidi was announced as the 2019 winner of Nine Dots Prize.&nbsp;<br />” <br />” The 100,000 US dollars award is a prestigious book prize created to award innovative thinking that addresses contemporary issues around the world.<br />”<br />”Mumbai-based Zaidi, a freelance writer won for her entry ‘Bread, Cement, Cactus' – combining memoir and reportage to explore concepts of home and belonging rooted in her experience of contemporary life in India.</span><br />