Kumar Suvarana Chandrak or the Kumar Gold Medal is a literary award given by Kumar Trust, Ahmedabad, India since 1944. The medal is annually conferred to a Gujarati author for his contribution in Kumar magazine published by Kumar Trust. In 1950, Chandravadan Mehta refused to accept Kumar Chandrak.[1][2]
| Kumar Suvarna Chandrak | |
|---|---|
| Civilian award for contributions to literature | |
| Awarded for | Literary honor |
| Sponsored by | Kumar Trust, Ahmedabad and Hiraben Foundation, Mumbai |
| Location | Gujarat, India |
| Formerly called | Kumar Chandrak (till 1983) |
| First awarded | 1944 |
| Last awarded | 2015 |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 53 |
| First winner | Hariprasad Desai |
| Last winner | Harshad Trivedi |
History
editThe medal was established in 1944, by Yashwant Pandya, an author contributing to Kumar. Initially, Gujarati authors Balwantray Thakore, Vishnuprasad Trivedi and Sundaram had served in a committee for the selection of awardee. Subsequently Ramnarayan V. Pathak and Anantrai Raval served on the committee. From 1983 to 2002, there is no expressed declaration of this medal, but from 2003 it has been started again. It was renamed from Kumar Chandrak (Kumar Medal) to Kumar Suvarna Chandrak (Kumar Gold Medal) in 2003.[1][2][3]
Recipients
edit| Year | Recipients |
|---|---|
| 1944 | Hariprasad Desai |
| 1945 | Pushkar Chandarvakar |
| 1946 | Yashodhar Mehta |
| 1947 | Rajendra Shah |
| 1948 | Balmukund Dave |
| 1949 | Niranjan Bhagat |
| 1950 | Vasudev Bhatt |
| 1951 | Bakul Tripathi |
| 1952 | Shivkumar Joshi |
| 1953 | Ashok Harsh |
| 1954 | Shivprasad Trivedi |
| 1955 | Umakant Shah |
| 1956 | Chandravadan A. Buch |
| 1957 | Jayant Pathak |
| 1958 | Hemant Desai |
| 1959 | Ushnas |
| 1960 | Navneet Parekh |
| 1961 | Sunil Kothari[4] |
| 1962 | Labhshankar Thakar |
| 1963 | Priyakant Maniar |
| 1964 | Chandrakant Sheth |
| 1965 | Raghuveer Chaudhari |
| 1966 | Father Vallés |
| 1967 | Harikrishna Pathak |
| 1968 | Gulabdas Broker |
| 1969 | Bhanuprasad Pandya |
| 1970 | Ramesh Parekh |
| 1971 | Dhiru Parikh |
| 1972 | Madhusudan Parekh |
| 1973 | Kanubhai Jani |
| 1974 | Madhusudan Dhaky |
| 1975 | Hariprasad Shastri |
| 1976 | Vinod Bhatt |
| 1977 | Bhagwatikumar Sharma |
| 1978 | Ashvin R. Desai |
| 1979 | Shankardev Vidyalankar |
| 1980 | Bahadurshah Pandit |
| 1981 | Hasmukh Baradi |
| 1982 | Praful Raval |
| 1983 | Chandrashankar Bhatt 'Shashishivam' |
| 2003 | Rajnikumar Pandya |
| 2004 | Ramchandra Patel |
| 2005 | Bahadurbhai Vank |
| 2006 | Priti Sengupta |
| 2007 | Sushrut Patel |
| 2008 | Bhagirath Brahmbhatt |
| 2009 | Parantap Pathak |
| 2010 | Rajesh Vyas 'Miskin' |
| 2011 | Pravin Darji |
| 2012 | Radheshyam Sharma |
| 2013 | Yoseph Macwan |
| 2014 | Harsh Brahmbhatt |
| 2015 | Harshad Trivedi[5] |
| 2016 | Bharat Dave[6] |
References
edit- ^ a b Trivedi, Dr. Ramesh M. (2015). Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihas (History of Modern Gujarati Literature). Ahmedabad: Adarsh Prakashan. p. 414. ISBN 978-93-82593-88-1.
- ^ a b "Kumar Suvarna Chandrak". Gujarati Sahitya Kosh (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature). Vol. 3. Ahmedabad: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. 1996. p. 104.
- ^ Pandya, Rajnikumar (September 14, 2015). "એકાણુ વર્ષના જુવાન 'કુમાર'ને અમરત્વનું વરદાન આપો- ૨" [91 years old Kumar deserves immortality]. WebGurjari (in Gujarati). Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "Eminent Artistes Receive Eviction Notices to Vacate Government Housing in Delhi". The Wire. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ Palan, Narottam (December 2017). હર્ષદ ત્રિવેદીને 'કુમાર' ચંદ્રક [Kumar Chandrak To Harshad Trivedi]. Parab (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. pp. 48–50. Archived from the original on 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
- ^ "મોટી ખોટ/ ગુજરાતના જાણીતા નાટ્યકાર અને લેખક ભરત દવેનું નિધન, કલાસંસ્કૃતિ ક્ષેત્રે આપેલું યોગદાન અતિમૂલ્યવાન - GSTV". Retrieved 2021-10-07.