1) Salman Rushdie
2) Arundhati Roy
3) Annie Zaidi
4) Vikram Seth
Explanation:
Indian playwright and journalist Annie Zaidi won the Nine Dots Prize 2019 for her essay “Bread, Cement, Cactus.” She won the cash prize of USD 100,000 (Rs 69.83 lakh). The Nine Dots Prize is a book prize for creative thinking which addresses current burning issues of the society. The entrants were asked to respond to a question in three thousand words. This year the question was “Is there still no place like home?”