# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/annie-zaidi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:55:43.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/annie-zaidi"
name: "Annie Zaidi"
slug: "annie-zaidi"
description: "Annie Zaidi is an English-language writer from India. Her novel, Prelude To A Riot, won the Tata Literature Live! Awards for Book of the Year 2020. In 2019, she won The Nine Dots Prize for her work Bread, Cement, Cactus and in 2018 she won The Hindu Playwright Award for her play, Untitled-1. Her non-fiction debut, a collection of essays, Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, was short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010."
tagline: "Indian writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.554141333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اینی زیدی (مصنف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "అన్నీ జైదీ (రచయిత)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump