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'''Anoushka Sabnis''' (born January 27, 2007) is an Indian [[writer]], poet and public speaker.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|date=September 12, 2019|title=Youngest Poet to Publish Poetry Book Internationally (Female)|url=http://www.worldrecordsindia.com/2019/09/youngest-poet-to-publish-poetry-book-internationally-female/|website=World Records India}}</ref> She has published several books. She published her first book at the age of 10<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Nandy|first=Asmita|date=March 20, 2018|title=A Poem A Week For Disneyland: How This 10-Yr-Old Published A Book|url=https://www.thequint.com/videos/anoushka-sabnis-world-poetry-day-kid-poet|access-date=2022-07-17|website=TheQuint|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=This 10-Year- Old Girl's Poetry Is Something Every Adult Should Read|url=https://www.whatshot.in/delhi-ncr/this-10-year--old-girls-poetry-is-something-every-adult-should-read-c-9449|access-date=2022-07-17|website=Whats Hot|language=en-IN}}</ref> and has since been active in advocating the benefits of reading and writing, especially for children.

== Education ==
Sabnis is a high school student studying in New Delhi, India.

== Writing career ==
As a new year resolution in 2016, Sabnis took up a challenge of writing poems and ended the year with 52 poems written over the 52 weekends of the year.<ref name=":2" /> Her first book, ''Once Upon a Verse – because poems tell stories'', is a collection of these poems, published by [[Author Solutions|Partridge Publishing]] in December 2017.<ref name=":3" />

She has since been writing and publishing short stories and poems.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sabnis|first=Anoushka|title=Golden Light – sterling short stories|publisher=Scholastic India|year=2021|isbn=978-9390590711}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://livewire.thewire.in/fiction-and-verse/my-covid-cocoon/|title=My Covid Cocoon|date=18 September 2022}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Notion Press Young Author Winners|url=https://notionpress.com/en/story/young_authors_winners|website=Notion Press}}</ref>

== Awards & honours ==
Sabnis created a world record by becoming the "Youngest Poet to Publish a Poetry Book Internationally (female)" at the age of 10, recognised by World Records India in September 2019.<ref name=":6" />

She is a 2-time recipient of the Gold Award at the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition, organised annually by the [[Royal Commonwealth Society]], [[London]], in 2018 and 2020.

Sabnis received the Young Leader Award for entrepreneurship and innovation and spoke on Teen Entrepreneurship<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=WEF Anoushka Sabnis|url=https://www.wef.org.in/anoushka-sabnis/|website=wef.org.in}}</ref> at the 84th Annual [[Women Economic Forum]] 2022, in New Delhi.

== Public speaking ==
Sabnis is a regular speaker at national and international [[Literary festival|literary festivals]] where she talks about [[children's literature]],<ref name=":0">{{Citation|title=#JBMatJLF2019: Writing for Children, Writing as Children|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxsXiZJVRY4|language=en|access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Citation|title=How Can Young Children Become Writers|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvirBl9ThzA|language=en|access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref> inculcating reading habits in children and young adults and shares anecdotes from her own life and writing journey.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Anoushka Sabnis, Mehul Jangir, Ritwij Shandilya, Bulbul Sharma|publisher=Jaipur Literature Festival|via=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwd64B3akg|language=en|access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=admin|date=January 29, 2019|title=She Started Writing at 5 & Became a Published Author at 10: Meet Anoushka Sabnis|url=https://indspireme.in/2019/01/29/anoushka-sabnis-interview-once-upon-a-verse/|access-date=2022-07-17|website=Indspire Me|language=en-US}}</ref>

She was a speaker at the [[Jaipur Literature Festival]] 2019 and Jaipur Book Mark 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Arinnya Mukherjee|date=January 23, 2019|title=Writing for Children, Writing as Children|website=Jaipur Literature Festival|url=https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/blog/writing-for-children-writing-as-children|access-date=2022-07-17|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ZEE JLF 2019: First sell your story idea in market, then start writing, says Sanjoy Roy|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-zee-jlf-2019-first-sell-your-story-idea-in-market-then-start-writing-says-sanjoy-roy-2711472|last=Kachhava|first=Priyanka|date=January 24, 2019|website=DNA India|language=en|access-date=2020-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jaipur BookMark — "Where books mean business!"|website=Jaya Bhattacharji Rose|url=http://www.jayabhattacharjirose.com/jaipur-bookmark-where-books-mean-business/|access-date=2022-07-17|language=en-US}}</ref> She spoke at the AIM Literary Festival in 2020. In 2021, Anoushka spoke about the importance of reading amongst children and young adults, at the third edition of the Orange City Literature Festival.<ref>[https://oclfnagpur.com/anoushka-sabnis-21 Anoushka Sabnis]</ref> In 2022, she spoke at the inaugural Orange City Literature Festival – Children's Edition on how young children can become writers.<ref name=":1" /> She spoke at the 84th Annual [[Women Economic Forum]] 2022 on Teen Entrepreneurship.<ref name=":4" />

== Entrepreneurship ==
Sabnis started the website Biblioverse – the universe of books, to encourage children in India to read and write.<ref name=":1" />

== Published writing ==

* "A Bottle of Achaar" in ''The Great Indian Teen Fiction Collective'', Publisher: [[Notion Press]],<ref name=":5" /> December 2022
* "The Boy who saved the World" in ''Golden Light – Sterling Short Stories'', Publisher: [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic India]], June 2021
* ''Elijah – the Chosen One'', Publisher: [[Kindle Direct Publishing|Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing]], October 2020
* "The Earth I want to See When I Grow Up" in an anthology of essays, ''Pen the Change'', Publisher: Authors Press, November 2018<ref>[https://www.authorspressbooks.com/ Authors Press]</ref>
* ''Once Upon a Verse – because poems tell stories'', collection of 52 poems, Publisher: [[Partridge Publishing]], December 2017
* "Importance of Body Image for Teenagers", Publisher: [https://ijip.in/articles/importance-of-body-image-for-teenagers/ International Journal of Indian Psychology] , September 2023
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== Organisations ==
Recognised as a Global Goodwill Ambassador from Asia by the GGA Foundation April 2018.

== See also ==

== References ==

== External links ==

* [http://jaipurbookmark.org/speaker/anoushka-sabnis/ Anoushka Sabnis, Jaipur Book Mark]
* [https://www.partridgepublishing.com/India/Books/bookdetail.aspx?bookid=BK170178 Once Upon a Verse : Because Poems Tell Stories]
* [https://www.dnaindia.com/just-before-monday/interview-young-poet-s-club-10-year-old-poet-anoushka-sibnis-spills-the-beans-2709889 DNA India – Young Poet's Club – Anoushka Sabnis]
* [https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-zee-jlf-2019-first-sell-your-story-idea-in-market-then-start-writing-says-sanjoy-roy-2711472 DNA India]
* [https://www.thequint.com/videos/anoushka-sabnis-world-poetry-day-kid-poet The Quint – Anoushka Sabnis – World Poetry Day]
* [https://indspireme.in/2019/01/29/anoushka-sabnis-interview-once-upon-a-verse/ Indspire Me – Anoushka Sabnis]
* [https://kiddylane.blogspot.in Anoushka Sabnis blog]
* [https://livewire.thewire.in/fiction-and-verse/my-covid-cocoon/ Live Wire, Anoushka Sabnis, My COVID Cocoon]

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