Rabindranath Tagore Award - International English Poetry Contest
Database of Top Ten Contest Winners and their respective Awards/Positions
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2012 - Contest#1
Juries Dr.Madan Gopal Gandhi, New Delhi, Dr. Bharat Booshan, New Delhi, Laura Bailey, United States
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Parvathi Nair Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
2013 - Contest#2
Juries - Raymond Arnold Wills, UK ,Norma Perez Martinez, USA, Dr. Ram Sharma, Uttar Pradesh, India
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
David J Delaney - Australia
Poiesis Award Winners
Sreelesh V.K - Second Kerala, India
Rajashree. P - Third Mumbai, India
Sujatha Warrier - Fourth Kerala, India
Anirudh Jain - Fifth Gujarat, India
Distinguished Poets
Anjani George - Kerala - India
Jatin Kuberkar - Andhrapradesh -India
Reena Prasad - Kerala - India
Sourav R - Karnataka - India
Srinivas Vasudev - Karnataka, India
2014 Contest#3
Juries : Tate Morgan, United States, Helene Cardona, United States, Dr. Rajendra Padhi, Odisha, India
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Neelam Chandra Saxena First Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, India
Poiesis Award Winners
Dr. Mathew R John Second Kottayam, Kerala, India
Meghna Gupta Jogani Third Maharashtra, India
Surekha Anandraya Bhat Third Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nayanathara Fourth Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Harish Srinivasan Fifth Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Ravi Anantharaman Fifth Palakkad, Kerala, India
Distinguished Poets
David J Delaney Sixth Cairns, Australia
Nirmalya Biswas Seventh Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Jatin Kuberkar Eighth Andhrapradesh, India
Akila Rajesh Ninth Bangalore, India
Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon Ninth Osun, Nigeria
Biswajith Patnaik Tenth Bhubanaswar, Odisha, India
2015 Contest#4
Juries : Dr. Vijay Nair, Palakkad, Kerala, India, Linda Ibbnotson, Ireland, Diane R Light, United States
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
M Dane Zahorsky First Missouri, United States
Poiesis Award Winners
Sathya Patnaik Second Odisha, India
Rahul Ahuja Third Surat, Gujarat, India
Deborah Kelly Fourth British Columbia, Canada
Steve Biddle Fifth Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Distinguished Poets
Nandina Garg Sixth Newdelhi, India
Dr. Mathew R John Sixth Kottayam, Kerala, India
Ananya Chatterjee Seventh Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Shelley Hansen Eighth Queensland, Austraila
Ravi Anantharaman Ninth Palakkad, Kerala, India
Gargi Sarkhel Bagchi Tenth Maharashtra, India
Wangchuk Bhutia Tenth Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Jatin Kuberkar Tenth Andhrapradesh, India
2016 Contest#5
Juries : Dr. Shiva Putra Kanade, Maharashtra, India, Adjey, Agyei Baah,Ashanti, Ghana, Olivia Kent, Dorset, United Kingdom
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Rajdeep Choudhury First Chinsura, West Bengal, India
Poiesis Award Winners
Meghna Gupta Jogani Second Maharashtra, India
Sagar Kataria Second Punjab, India
Devi Manoj Third Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala, India
Gabriel Arnou Laujeac Fourth Bordeaux, France
Neeti Banga Fourth New Delhi, India
Bandana Kar Fifth Odisha, India
Parul Rastogi Fifth New Delhi, India
Shelley Hansen Fifth Queensland, Australia
Simran Arora Fifth Newdelhi, India
Distinguished Poets
Dev Mishra Sixth Odisha, India
Ravi Ranganathan Seventh Chennai, India
Anuradha [ Kadambari] Eighth Chennai, India
Diwakar Pokhriyal Eighth New Delhi, India
Hrishikesh Padhye Eighth India
Indrajit Rai Eighth Shilong, Meghalaya, India
Janet Kvamen Eighth British Columbia, India
Dr. Manjiree Vaidya Eighth India
Neelam Chandra Saxena Ninth Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, India
Rashmi Jain Ninth Prayagraj, Uttarpradesh, India
Sunila Khemchandani Ninth Mumbai, India
Deborah Kelly Tenth British Columbia, Canada
Sanjay Mukherjee Tenth Gujarat, India
Vinita Agarwal Tenth Indore, Madhyapradesh, India
2017 Contest#6 - National Poets & Writers
Juries : Prof. Mellisa Studdard, United States, Herb W Bryce, Canada, Dr. Smita Bauguna Agarwal
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Elizabeth Kurian [ Mona] First Telagana, India
Poiesis Award Winners
Saranya Francis Second Bangalore, India
Shelley Bhoil Third Shimla, Himchal Pradesh, India
Oildrila Kar Fourth Siliguri, West Bengal
Subhashini Koundinya Fifth Pune, Maharashtra, India
Distinguished Poets
Gaurav Pathania Sixth Kaithal, Haryana, India
Padmaja Iyengar Seventh Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Afshan Fatima Eighth Lucknow, Uttrarpradesh, India
Pankajam Kottarath Ninth Trissur, Kerala/ Tamilnadu, India
Neelam Chandra Saxena Tenth Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, India
Shelley Hansen Tenth Queensland, Australia
2018 Contest#7
Juries : Prof. Srinivas Vasudev - India, Hanook Gohar – Pakistan, Lois P Jones – United States
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Rahul Ahuja First Surat, Gujarat, India
Poiesis Award Winners
Olivia Saha Neogi Second Siliguri, West Bengal, India
Pankajam Kottarath Third Chennai/Trissur – Tamilnadu/kerala
Shaveta Marwaha Fourth Punjab, India
Swapna Behera Fourth Odisha, India
Janet Kvamen Fourth Canada
Reshma Ramesh Fifth Karnataka, India
Distinguished Poets
Moinak Dutta Sixth West Bengal, India
Lovita Morang Sixth Assam, India
Nayanathara Sixth Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Rajbabu Gandham Seventh Telangana
Mahalakshmi Borthakur Eighth Lucknow, Uttarpradesh
Parul Chaturvedi Eighth Kanpur, Uttarpradesh, India
Agnivesh Mahapatra Ninth Odisha, India
Pushyami Vemulapalli Ninth Telangana, India
Oindrilla Kar Ghosh Tenth Siliguri, West Bengal, India
2019 Contest#8
Juries: Margo Berdeshevsky, Paris- France, Dr. Dushyat Nimavat – Gujarat- India, Susan Rogers – United States
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Lozan Yamolky First Canada/Iraq
Poiesis Award Winners
Jagari Mukherjee Second West Bengal, India
Shelley Hansen Third Australia
Maryam Abbasi Fourth Kanpur-Uttar Pradesh, India
Geetha Nair Fifth Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Distinguished Poets
Sajla Chawla Sixth Goa, India
Seena Sreevalson Seventh Malapuram, Kerala, India
Debasish Mishra Eighth Odisha- India
Nayanathara Ninth Thiruvananthapuram, India
Bishnu Charan Parida Tenth Odisha, India
2020 Contest# 9
Juries : Avik Gangopadhyay, West Bengal-India, Morii Kae,Japan, A Molotkov – Russia/USA
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Monalisa Das Dwibedy First Canada/Odisha- India
Poiesis Award Winners
Jinju S Second Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala- India
Arya Mohapatra Third Odisha- India
Rahul Ahuja Fourth Surat, Gujarat, India
Subramanian A Fifth Palakkad- Kerala- India
Distinguished Poets
Niladri Mahajan Sixth West Bengal- India
Shelley Hansen Seventh Australia
Padmapriya Karthik Eighth Chennai- Tamilnadu-India
R. Jayachandran Ninth Thiruvananthapuram- India
Shaveta Marwaha Tenth Gurgaon, Haryana- India
Prabha Prakash Tenth Palakkad- Kerala- India
C.N. Rajalakshmi Tenth Palakkad- Kerala- India
2021 Contest#10
Juries : Lucille C Manuel – Philippines, P.S.V Vinod Kumar- Hyderabad, Telangana India, Sikandera Mir - Pakistan/Spain
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Monalish Das Dwibedy First Canada/Odisha
Poiesis Award Winners
Lali Tisipi Michaeli Second Tel Aviv, Israel
Srinivas Vasudev Third Bangalore- Karnataka - India
Niladri Mahajan Third Kolkata, West Bengal
Sue Zhu Fourth China/ New Zealand
Shailaja Pandey Fifth Jamshedpur, Jharkhand – India
Distinguished Poets
Soumya Subhadharshini Sixth Bhubneswar- Odisha- India
Gandali Sawant Seventh Mumbai- Maharashtra- India
Gulnar Raheem Khan Eighth Chennai – Tamilnadu – India
Mahua Sen Ninth Hyderabad – India
Utpal Chakraborty Tenth Kolkata - West Bengal – India
2022 Contest#11
Juries : Nina Kossman – United States, Bagawath Bhandari – Bhutan, Dr. Nandini Sahu – Newdelhi- India
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Shelley Hansen First Australia
Poiesis Award Winners
Patanjali Patanaik Second Odisha- India
Kamalika Majumder Third Kolkata- West Bengal- India
Bolanath Das Fourth West Bengal- India
Sharanya Fifth Thiruvananthapuram- Kerala- India
Distinguished Writers
Jayachandran R Sixth Thiruvananthapuram – Kerala – India
Arya Mohapatra Seventh Odisha- India
Santosh Biswal Eighth Odisha – India
Shaveta Marwaha Ninth Gurgaon- Haryana – India
Asutosh Mahohar Popate Ninth Chimur -Maharashtra – India
Usha Sridhar Tenth Bangalore – Karnataka – India
2023 Contest#12
Juries : Parashuramrao Gande- Telangana- India, Nina Alsirtawi Bengazi – Libya, Margaret Manning – West Cork – Ireland
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Shelley Hansen First Queensland, Australia
Poiesis Award Winners
Pramila Khadun Second Mauritius
Debarati Sen Third West Bengal- India
Jayachandran Ramachandran Fourth Thiruvananthapuram – Kerala – India
Mahua Sen Fourth Telangana – India
Santosh Bakaya Fourth Jaipur- Rajasthan – India
Komal Gupta Fifth Gurugram- Hayana – India
Distinguished Poets
Ammu Ashok Sixth Thiruvananthapuram – kerala - India
Harinder Cheema Seventh Himachal Pradesh – India
Arya Mohapatra Eighth Odisha- India
Bolanath Das Ninth Kolkata – West Bengal – India
Preeti S Manaktala Ninth Bangalore – Karnataka – India
Radhakrishnan S Tenth Bhopal – Madhya Pradesh – India
2024 Contest#13
Juries : Monika Ajay Kaul – Kashmir – India, Keshab Sigdel – Kathmandu – Nepal, Stefania Tsankova ( Georgieva ) – Tarnovo – Bulgaria
Rabindranath Tagore Award Winner and a cash award of 5000 INR
Ambika Talwar First United States/India
Poiesis Award Winners
Anamika Nath Second Tezpur – Assam – India
Kamalika Majumder Third Kolkata – West Bengal – India
Devi Vaidehi Fourth Palakkad – Kerala – India
Brindha Vinodh Fifth Tamilnadu – India / US
Distiguished Poets
David J Delaney Sixth Australia
R Jayachandran Sixth Thiruvananthapuram – Kerala – India
Bolanath Das Seventh Kolkata - West Bengal – India
Zia Marshall Eighth Hyderabad – Telangana – India
Rahul Ahuja Ninth Surat – Gujarat – India
Anahita Dubey Tenth Navi Mumbai – Maharashtra – India
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