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The Story Of A Great City And Its Most Powerless Inhabitants
Annie Zaidi won the TATA Literature Live! Book of the Year Award—Fiction in 2020.
Annie Zaidi
Women Always Find A Way Of Telling Their Stories: Author Annie Zaidi
SheThePeople.TV spoke with Annie about what winning the Nine Dots Prize means to her, the themes that inform her work, and the prize she has instituted in the memory of her maternal grandfather, Ali Jawad Zaidi, a Padma Shri awardee and an Urdu poet and scholar.
Indian writer Annie Zaidi wins $100,000 Nine Dots Prize
My work has often crossed over genres, traversing between memoir and journalism, and this timely but wide-open question encouraged us to approach it with methods that were equally far-ranging
Of Translations, Writing And Bringing Social Change Through Literature
Literary art is diverse and multilingual even within our country. With millions of texts depicting scores of lives regionally, it is difficult for these texts to be read widely if it is not written in a popular language like Hindi or English. For that, there is a small community of authors who take it upon […]
Day 2: Women and Crime Writing. Do they go hand in hand?
Women and crime. Do they go hand in hand? There is no hard evidence to suggest so. But women writing about crime? Well, those are some of the most formidable, intriguing, nuanced and amazing stories that one could possibly read. Day 2 of the SheThePeople.TV’s Women Writers’ Fest’s panel was on “When Women Write Crime.” […]
Women Poets Discuss Religion, Caste and Myths
Why do topics on social issues and religion invariably crop up in feminist poetry? How can poetry serve as a salve for hardships thrust upon women? These were some of the questions that six women poets discussed in a scintillating panel at the ‘Poets Translating Poets’ festival over the weekend.
