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.
History The 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.
Recipients 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 Tripathi1952 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 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. Desai1979 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 Macwan2014Harsh Brahmbhatt2015Harshad Trivedi2016Bharat Dave
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