Who has won the Nine Dots Prize Award 2019?

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The correct answer is Annie Zaidi.

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Annie Zaidi won the Nine Dots Prize Award 2019.
The Nine Dots Prize seeks to reward original thinking in response to contemporary societal issues.
Each Prize cycle lasts two years, with a new question being announced every other October.
The winner of each cycle is supported to develop their response into a full-length book, which is published by Cambridge University Press, and given the opportunity to spend a term at CRASSH (CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES).
Annie Zaidi is a freelance writer. Her entry was- Bread, Cement, Cactus.
It combines memoir and reportage to explore concepts of home and belonging rooted in her experience of contemporary life in India, where migration - within the country, especially from villages to cities - is high.