Premanand Suvarna Chandrak


The Premanand Suvarna Chandrak or Premanand Gold Medal is a literary honour awarded every two years, though sometimes annually, to an established Gujarati writer in order to recognize and promote excellence in Gujarati writing. It is given by an institute of literature, the Premanand Sahitya Bhavan of Vadodara, in remembrance of the Gujarati poet with which it shares its name, Premanand Bhatt. Established in 1916 as the Gujarati Sahitya Sabha and renamed to be the Premanand Sahitya Bhavan in 1944, the organization and institute started this medal in 1983.

Recipients

YearRecipient
1983Mareez
1985Vishnuprasad R. Trivedi
1987Harivallabh Bhayani
1989Umashankar Joshi
1991Dharmiklal Pandya
1992
1994Madhu Rye
1996Priyakant Parikh
1997Amrut Ghayal
1998Niranjan Bhagat
2000Rajendra Shah
2001
2003Chandrakant Topiwala
2005-2006Pravin Darji
2007-2008Dhiru Parikh
2009-2010Mohan Parmar
2011-2012Suman Shah
2013-2014Lovekumar Desai
2015-2016Chandrakant Sheth