Annie Zaidi is the author of The Comeback, City of Incident, Prelude to a Riot, Gulab, Love Stories #1 to 14, and Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales. She is also the editor of Unbound: 2000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing. Read More In 2019, she won the international Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues for Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation. Her novel Prelude to a Riot received the Literature Live Award for fiction (2020) and was shortlisted for the JCB prize for literature. She also won the Hindu Playwright Award (2018) for her script Untitled 1, and her radio script Jam was named regional (South Asia) winner for the BBC’s International Playwriting Competition (2011).