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
List of recipients:
YearRecipient1983Mareez (posthumously)1985Vishnuprasad Trivedi1987Harivallabh Bhayani1989Umashankar Joshi (posthumously)1991Dharmiklal Pandya19921994Madhu Rye1996Priyakant Parikh1997Amrut Ghayal1998Niranjan Bhagat2000Rajendra Shah20012003Chandrakant Topiwala2005-2006Pravin Darji2007-2008Dhiru Parikh2009-2010Mohan Parmar2011-2012Suman Shah2013-2014Lovekumar Desai (posthumously)2015-2016Chandrakant Sheth
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