Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (lit.'Gujarati Literary Council') is a literary organisation for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was founded by Ranjitram Mehta with the aim of creating literature appealing to all classes of society and cultivating a literary sense among the people. Many prominent people including Mahatma Gandhi and Kanaiyalal Munshi have presided over the organisation. Its headquarters, located on Ashram Road, is known as Govardhan Bhavan. It has a conference hall and library.
Parab is the monthly magazine of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and is published on the 10th of every month.[1]
It published seven volumes of the History of Gujarati Literature, of which the first volume covers a period of 1150 A.D to 1450 A.D.[6] A weekly poetry workshop known as Budh Sabha is held on every Wednesday at the World Poetry Center of Parishad.
It gives 30 prizes to writers in different genres of literature. The prizes given every two years are:[7]
Takhtasinh Parmar Prize for the best amongst writers first publication of poetry, drama, short story or novel
Natvar Malvi Prize for children's literature
Annieben Saraiya Prize for the best book on humanity
Mahendra Bhagat Prize for the best anthology of poem
Dilip Mehta Prize for the best anthology of ghazals
Raman Pathak Sashtipurti Prize for the best collection of short stories
Gopaldas Vidvans Prize for the best translation
Bhaskarao Vidvans Prize for the best book of sociology
Ramanlal Soni Prize for the best children's literature book
Suresh Majumdar Prize for the best female translator
Ramanlal Joshi Prize for the best book on criticism
Upendra Pandya Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis
Prabhashankar Teraiya Prize for the best book in linguistics or grammar
Pandit Bechardas Jivaraj Dhoshi Prize for the best book on Sanskrit, Prakrit and Gujarati grammar
Priyakant Parikh Prize for the best novel
Ramu Pandit Prize for the best book on human relations or economics.
Controversies
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad was fined by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in February 2022 for cutting trees illegally. Parishad did not pay attention for many months after getting notices from the corporation. Parishad also deleted this episode of illegally cutting trees from its annual report, which is again a breach by a public institution. Parishad received a lot of negative publicity in newspapers for this illegal and unethical conduct.[8][9][10]
References
^"ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ" [Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]. www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com (in Gujarati). Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
^Joshi, Ramanlal (October–December 1974). "A Crop of Fresh Telents". Indian Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. 17 (4): 13. JSTOR23329892.
^Abichandani, Param A; Dutt, K C. (2005). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Supplementary Entries and Index (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. pp. 4690–4691. OCLC34346409.
