# Kumar Suvarna Chandrak

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**Kumar Suvarana Chandrak** or the **Kumar Gold Medal** is a literary award given by Kumar Trust, [Ahmedabad](/source/Ahmedabad), India since 1944. The medal is annually conferred to a [Gujarati](/source/Gujarati_language) author for his contribution in *[Kumar](/source/Kumar_magazine)* magazine published by Kumar Trust. In 1950, [Chandravadan Mehta](/source/Chandravadan_Mehta) refused to accept Kumar Chandrak.[1][2]

## History

The medal was established in 1944, by [Yashwant Pandya](/source/Yashwant_Pandya), an author contributing to *Kumar*. Initially, Gujarati authors [Balwantray Thakore](/source/Balwantray_Thakore), [Vishnuprasad Trivedi](/source/Vishnuprasad_Trivedi) and [Sundaram](/source/Tribhuvandas_Luhar) had served in a committee for the selection of awardee. Subsequently [Ramnarayan V. Pathak](/source/Ramnarayan_V._Pathak) and [Anantrai Raval](/source/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

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

1. 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.

1. "Kumar Suvarna Chandrak". *Gujarati Sahitya Kosh (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature)*. Vol. 3. Ahmedabad: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. 1996. p. 104.

1. Pandya, Rajnikumar (September 14, 2015). ["એકાણુ વર્ષના જુવાન 'કુમાર'ને અમરત્વનું વરદાન આપો- ૨"](http://webgurjari.in/2015/09/14/91-years-old-young-kumar-deserves-eternal-care_2/) [91 years old Kumar deserves immortality] (in gu). *WebGurjari*. Retrieved 3 February 2017.

1. ["Eminent Artistes Receive Eviction Notices to Vacate Government Housing in Delhi"](https://thewire.in/government/eminent-artistes-receive-eviction-notices-vacate-government-housing-delhi). *The Wire*. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

1. Palan, Narottam (December 2017). ["gu:હર્ષદ ત્રિવેદીને 'કુમાર' ચંદ્રક"](https://parab.online/2017-12-પરબ-ડિસેમ્બર-2017/) [Kumar Chandrak To Harshad Trivedi] (in gu). *Parab*. Ahmedabad: [Gujarati Sahitya Parishad](/source/Gujarati_Sahitya_Parishad). pp. 48–50. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210116145105/https://parab.online/2017-12-%E0%AA%AA%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%AC-%E0%AA%A1%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AC%E0%AA%B0-2017/) 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2021-10-13.

1. ["મોટી ખોટ/ ગુજરાતના જાણીતા નાટ્યકાર અને લેખક ભરત દવેનું નિધન, કલાસંસ્કૃતિ ક્ષેત્રે આપેલું યોગદાન અતિમૂલ્યવાન - GSTV"](https://web.archive.org/web/20211007181458/https://www.gstv.in/gujarati-famous-theatre-artist-bharat-dave-no-more-gujarati-news/). Archived from [the original](https://www.gstv.in/gujarati-famous-theatre-artist-bharat-dave-no-more-gujarati-news/) on 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2021-10-07.

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