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Narsinh Mehta Award is largest award of Gujarati literature

Gujarati literature

The history of Gujarati literature may be traced to 1000 AD, and this literature has flourished since then to the present. It is unique in having almost no patronage from a ruling dynasty, other than its composers...

. The award is given to Gujarati Kavi or Shahityakar by Adyakavi Narsinh Mehta Shahity Nidhi, Junagadh. The award is held at crepuscle of Sharad Purnima, mostly at Rupayatan

Rupayatan

Rupayatan is a residency school at Bhavnath, Junagadh in Gujarat, India.Rupayatan was founded by Ratubhai Adani, a well known freedom fighter....

, Junagadh

Junagadh

Junagadh is the headquarters of Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city is the 7th largest in Gujarat. The city is located at the foot of the Girnar hills, 355 km south west of state capital Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. The city is in western India. Literally translated,...

. Award was started in the year of 1999. Award Winner gets the Idol of Narsinh Mehta

Narsinh Mehta

Narsinh Mehta also known as Narsi Mehta or Narsi Bhagat was a poet-saint of Gujarat, India, and a member of the Nagar Brahmins community, notable as a bhakta, an exponent of Hindu devotional religious poetry. He is especially revered in Gujarati literature, where he is acclaimed as its Adi Kavi...

and 1,51,000 cash.

List of Narsinh Mehta Award Winnder

Year	Winnder
1999	Rajendra Shah
2000	Makrand Dave
2001	Niranjan Bhagat
2002	Amrut Ghayal
2003	Jayanta Pathak
2004	Ramesh Parekh
2005	Chandrakant Seth
2006	Rajendra Shukla
2007	Suresh Dalal
2008	Chinu Modi
2009	Bhagavatikumar Sharma
2010	Anil Joshi
2011	Bhanuprasad Pandya

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