About Author Firdous Alam
One of the versatile & creative writers , Clochard (also known as Firdous Alam) was born in 1998 , 11th may in northeastern region of india. He is well known for his unique mixture of different literary genres and devices . When he was a student, he won District level story writing competition, State level essay writing competition and scored 100% in National level quizzes on English Literature organised by a Government College of Chattisgarh. In 2022, he secured a rank among top-100 poets organized by SUPER7 National poetry competition As one of the youngest writers/novelists of the 21st century, he started his writing career early at the age of 19 and wrote almost six ebooks which are available in Kindle US, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, India, Mexico and in other Amazon market places. In 2022, he won YS INTERNATIONAL AWARD as a novelist for his adult fiction book, "Aura Of August: In Red Light Street". In the year 2023, he won STATE GEM AWARD in Bangalore in the best novelist of the year category. The ELYSIANPEN and WEBSTORYINDIA placed Clochard among TOP 30 outstanding personalities of the year 2023 and if we search on Google as " TOP 30 OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES OF THE YEAR
2023", we can definitely see his name there. In the same year, THE EXPLORING MINDS placed him in the 20th place among the Changemakers of India. In 2024, he won GEOFFREY CHAUCER AWARD for his valuable contribution towards English literature and again, ELYSIANPEN placed him among "TOP 19 MOST UNIQUE WRITERS OF 2023". In Asia's largest Book Fair or World's 3rd largest Book Fair (Kolkata Book Fair), his novel "Aura Of August' got highest sales of all time which is a big achievement for a novelist like Clochard. In the year 2024, he won the B.R AMBEDKAR AWARD(SAMMAN) for writing the book 'FOUR WAYS TO REVERSE RAPE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE '. Author Page - amazon.com/author/clochard Instagram username - @_clochard__