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Today is the day!
We are excited to reveal the official question for the 2024/25 Nine Dots Prize: ‘Is data failing us?’
The winner will be awarded US$100,000 and a book deal with @CambridgeUP for the best 3,000-word response.
The Nine Dots Prize
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The Nine Dots Prize
@NineDotsPrize
We’re a book prize for a book that hasn’t been written yet. Every two years we ask a thought-provoking question, the best response wins $100,000 + a book deal.
Joined April 2016
- We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Nine Dots Prize 2019/2020 is Mumbai-based journalist and playwright, Annie Zaidi. ninedotsprize.org/mumbai-based-j… #9dots
- We are pleased to announce that the Cambridge-based researcher and scholar-activist Joanna Kusiak is the winner of the 2022/23 Nine Dots Prize. Congratulations @jkkusiak!
- We're thrilled to reveal the question for the 2021/2022 Nine Dots Prize: What does it mean to be young in an ageing world? Visit our website for more information, FAQs and resources to help with your application @CRASSHlive @CambridgeUP bit.ly/3jmhsvY
00:00 - We’re wishing @mstrishlorenz a very happy publication day! Her book, Soro Soke: The Young Disruptors of an African Megacity, is published TODAY by @CambridgeUP. You can order a copy in paperback or read it for free with #OpenAccess – congratulations Trish! bit.ly/3yZm3z9
- Today is the day! The 2019 Nine Dots Prize question is: "Is there still no place like home?" Submissions are now open and full details can be found on our website.
- Replying to @NineDotsPrizeNext we head to Eastern Uttar Pradesh, notorious for its goons and gangs, as well as its sugar industry
- Introducing the inaugural #9dots Prize. Find out how you can win $100,000 and a book deal with @CambridgeUP
- We can now reveal the question for the 2023/24 Nine Dots Prize. We are asking: Why has the rule of law become so fragile? For more information and resources to help with your application, visit our website. Good luck! bit.ly/3jmhsvY
- Zaidi's winning Nine Dots Prize entry, 'Bread, Cement, Cactus', combines memoir and reportage to explore concepts of home and belonging rooted in her experience of contemporary life in India. Read an extract here: ninedotsprize.org/extract-from-b… #9dots
- Today's the day! We're thrilled that after @anniezaidi won the #9dots prize this time last year, her stunning book #BreadCementCactus is now available from booksellers and FREE on #OpenAccess - get access at bit.ly/2BaXB1R @CRASSHlive @CambridgeUP
- Before #BreadCementCactus is published next week, we wanted to show off some of the incredible illustrations by @YZaidi18, the mother of author @AnnieZaidi. This first one is of the township JK Puram in Rajasthan, where the book begins
- On 28 May we celebrate the publication of #BreadCementCactus by @anniezaidi, an exploration of belonging and identity building on her answer to the #9Dots Prize question 'is there still no place like home?' We are delighted to reveal the book jacket here @CambridgeUP #openaccess
- People from all over the world submitted entries for our third Prize cycle, the winner of which will be announced on Friday. Thank you to everyone who applied.
