Annie Zaidi
ANNIE ZAIDI is the festival director of Chandigarh Literature Festival 2018.
She writes across several genres including reportage, fiction, drama, and comics. She is the author of Gulab, Love Stories # 1 to 14, and Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, and the co-author of The Good Indian Girl. She has edited Unbound: 2000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing, and Equal Halves.
She is also the winner of The Hindu Playwright Award 2018, for Untitled 1. Her script for a radio
play, Jam, was the regional (South Asia) winner for the BBC’s International Playwriting
Competition.
Zaidi works as a filmmaker too. Her first documentary film, ‘In her Words: The Journey of Indian
Women’, traces the lives and struggles of women as reflected in their literature. She has written and
directed five fictional short films.