This award is presented by NE8x official to prominent authors, writers or people who are skilled in their field once they are selected for a yearly cycle with their most popular book in the year running.
The award contains a gold medal, a framed memento with author’s name and a certificate to honour their performance, growth and talent in the writing field to showcase their present status in the writing world and uplift them to larger scale of writing society by showing their contribution to the field
Saurabh pant is a visually impaired author who was born on 4th of April 1994 in Nainital, a beautiful hill station of Uttarakhand and he has contributed to the field with more than 120 writing works and has decent growth.
His book titled ‘Thoughts beyond measure’ that was published by Lab Academia in January 2020 was selected by the Lit fest team of NE8x official to consider him as a challenger and participate for the yearly cycle.
The author had no idea how far he would go, but when he was nominated and presented with Tagore commemorative in May 2022, he felt this could lead to something. The lit fest team asked him to record an introductory video and also asked for reviews on the work which he shared with images.
The process continued as they dwell deep and with great heart helped him get name through social media, various platforms and kept him updated via mail on the schemes they offer and how things were going round.
Finally in January, the cycle has completed and a list of those who have reached the preliminary round has come. When the author checked the list of 100 writers his name wasn’t there. But the lit fest team confirmed that the final round list has to come and he has gone up to the higher round and he should wait patiently.
After all the procedure to go through and approval from the jury members, it was a proud day on 23rd of march 2023 when final form submission came and Saurabh pant became Author of the year finalist with 2,50,800 votes in his favour. They took the address to dispatch the award and Mr. Pant requested them to send it to Priya di’s place to celebrate the moment.
The yearly cycle has summed up and new writers would be honoured, but Mr. Pant waited for the award to come home. In the month of October he asked Priya di to send it to his home and now everyone became part of the joy of his glory and influence.
Recalling the happy memories, the author is gratified to parents and family, Lab academia publication, Tagore commemorative team, all the digital news platforms with Digital Golgappa, the entire jury and all the audience who voted to let him reach up to Author of the year finalist and everyone involved in his journey so far, he is delighted and shal cherish this joy for long, for now its cheers from charlie…
