Elite Book Awards has been giving a remarkable platform to budding literary enthusiasts and artists to showcase their talents and creativity ever since its inception in the middle of 2021. EBA honors and recognizes passionate literary stalwarts and artistic souls by presenting the right branding and exposure to make their work stand out from their contemporaries and carve a niche for themselves in the creative world. After successfully conducting 2 seasons, Elite Book Awards along with their media partner and India’s most trusted digital media agency Digital Golgappa launched Elite’s Annual Carnival of Art and Literature that embarked on from 5th November 2021 and continued till 31st December 2021. The Carnival was a huge affair with numerous intriguing events, intellectual guest speaker sessions, book talks, book giveaways, art and literary competitions, prestigious award events etc. The international carnival saw people participating from various corners of the world- From India to Nepal, Nigeria to USA, Poland to Italy. Three major competitions organized during the carnival were- International Poetry Writing Competition, International Story Writing Competition and International Art Competition. With more than 200 participants, the winners, runner ups and top 10 were shortlisted as under:
Winner (English Category): Debarati Sen: Debarati Sen works in Presidency University Kolkata as a Junior Assistant at the English Department. She completed Masters in English from Presidency College Kolkata. A published poet, columnist in Youth Ki Awaz , freelancer at an International NGO named JPS Medaid, co-author in Amazon and an independent researcher in the genre of Disability Studies sums up her opus.
Runner Up (English Category): Vykhari S Nair: Vykhari S Nair is a rising poet from Thrissur, Kerala. She is currently doing her grade XI-th at VIjayagiri Public School, Ashtamichira, Thrissur. She is conversant with several activities like dancing, painting, karate, yoga etc. She has made her signature in India book of Records, International Book of Records, Kalams World Records, OMG Book of Records, Gold in National Karate Championship recently.
TOP 10 POETS(ENGLISH)
- Debarati Sen
- Vykhari S Nair
- Charmila Yerra
- Elizabeth Akkiniyi
- Sumana Acherjee Mukherjee
- Roopjot Kaur
- Ankita Bhatia
- Twisha Ray
- Devanshi Kapoor
- Prakritrish Mukherjee
Winner (Hindi Category): Rameshwari Mishra: Rameswari Mishra is an engineer from Hyderabad who loves to write poetries and stories.
Runner Up (Hindi Category): Deepak Agarwal: Deepak Agarwal is a writer who hails from Katihar Bihar and he is a crime and a patriotic writer and he is proud and has full faith in his Indian Army. Deepak's aim is to build an anti-rapist country and fill the slogan "Beta Padhao Beti Bachao", instead of "बेटी पढ़ाओ बेटी बचाओ”. He believes that there is a need to change the mindset of sons and not that of daughters.
TOP TO POETS(HINDI)
- Rameshwari Mishra
- Deepak Agarwal
- Prateekshya Mishra
- Sunil Gattani
- Ananya Tyagi
- Ishita Jain
- Sameer Singh Rathore
- Prerna Gupta
- Gauri Sharma
- Digvijay Srivastav
INTERNATIONAL STORY WRITING COMPETITION
Winner: Madhurima Guruju: Madhurima is an educator and artist who hails from Hyderabad. According to her, writing is like a therapy to deal with tumultuous situation and pen is her only friend on which she relies to vent her tangled thoughts through poetry and stories
Runner Up: Karthika Nehru: Karthika Nehru is a writer from Cuddalore. She is an optimistic girl. She is an English literature student and is trying to shine like a Star with her own efforts. Her hobby is writing stories and drawing. Her wish is to continue penning with love and luck .
TOP 10 WRITERS
- Madhurima Guruju
- Karthika Nehru
- Anindita Paul
- Shreya Sharma
- Vikranjit Saha
- Aftab Dilwar Hussain
- Nandini Singhania
- Josephine King
- Rishita Gotecha
- Tuhin Choudhury
INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION
Winner: Sachin Surya B: Sachin Surya is an artist from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Runner Up: Mantasha Shaikh: Mantasha Shaikh is an artist from Uttar Pradesh (India). She is a 12th standard student. She has been drawing since childhood and loves to draw sketches and painting
TOP 10 ARTISTS
- Sachin Surya B
- Mantasha Shaikh
- Harshita Dubey
- Atharva Dwivedi
- Ayushman Sarkar
- Nilanjana Roy
- Sravani Shankar
- Pradyuman Dasgupta
- Shradha Kaushik
- Darshan Tiwari
