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[[File:Gujarati sahitya parishad.jpg|thumb|Gujarati Sahitya Parishad building]]
'''Gujarati Sahitya Parishad''' (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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ - Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/parab/index.html|access-date=2020-10-25|website=www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com}}</ref>
[[File:Ra.Vi Pathak Hall at Gujarat Sahitya Parishad.jpg|thumb|Ramnarayan V. Pathak Auditorium]]

==Presidents==
[[File:Chimanlal Mangaldas Granthalay library Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.jpg|thumb|Chimanlal Mangaldas Library]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! President !! City !! Year
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| [[Prakash N. Shah]]<ref name="DeshGujarat 2020">{{cite web|title=Prakash N Shah elected as new President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|website=DeshGujarat|date=23 October 2020|url=https://www.deshgujarat.com/2020/10/23/prakash-n-shah-elected-as-new-president-of-gujarati-sahitya-parishad/|access-date=25 October 2020}}</ref> || Ahmedabad || 2020
|-
| [[Sitanshu Yashaschandra]] ||[[Secunderabad]]|| 2018
|-
| [[Chandrakant Topiwala]] || [[Bhuj]] ||2016
|-
| [[Dhiru Parikh]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://deshgujarat.com/2013/12/24/dhirubhai-parikh-becomes-new-president-of-gujarati-sahitya-parishad/ |title=Dhirubhai Parikh becomes new President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|date=24 December 2013|work=DeshGujarat|access-date =10 May 2014}}</ref>|| [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]] || 2014
|-
| [[Varsha Adalja]]<ref name=va>{{cite news|url=http://deshgujarat.com/2012/07/27/varsha-adalja-new-president-of-gujarati-sahitya-parishad-prakash-bhagwati-new-president-of-gcci/|title=Varsha Adalja new President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Prakash Bhagwati new President of GCCI|date=27 July 2012|work=DeshGujarat|access-date =28 May 2014}}</ref> || [[Ahmedabad]]|| 2012
|-
| [[Bholabhai Patel]]<ref name=va/> || [[Junagadh]]||2011
|-
| [[Bhagwatikumar Sharma]] ||[[Surat]]|| 2009
|-
| [[Narayan Desai]] ||Ahmedabad||2007
|-
| [[Kumarpal Desai]]||Ahmedabad||2006
|-
|[[Bakul Tripathi]] ||[[Mumbai]]||2005
|-
| [[Dhiruben Patel]]|| [[Mahuva, Bhavnagar|Mahuva]]||2003
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| [[Raghuveer Chaudhari]] ||Patan||2001
|-
|[[Dhirubhai Thaker]] ||[[Visnagar]]||1999
|-
| [[Niranjan Bhagat]]||[[Baroda]] ||1997
|-
| [[Vinod Bhatt]]|| [[Jamnagar]]|| 1995
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| [[Rajendra Shah (author)|Rajendra Shah]]||[[Kolkata]]|| 1993
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| [[Ushnas]]||Coimbatore|| 1991
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| [[Jayant Pathak]]|| Rajkot||1989
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| [[Bhogilal Sandesara]]|| Bombay||1987
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| [[Keshavram Kashiram Shastri]] || Pune|| 1985
|-
|Yashwant Shukla||Surat||1983
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|[[Manubhai Pancholi]]|| Hyderabad|| 1981
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|[[Anantrai Raval]]||Baroda ||1979
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|[[Chandravadan Mehta]] ||||1978
|-
| [[Ramprasad Bakshi]]||Porbandar ||1976
|-
| [[Gulabdas Broker]]|| Vallabh||1974
|-
|[[Jhinabhai Desai]] 'Sneharasmi' || Chennai ||1972
|-
| [[Tribhuvandas Luhar]] 'Sundaram'||Junagadh || 1970
|-
|[[Umashankar Joshi]]|| Delhi|| 1968
|-
| [[Jyotindra Dave]] ||Surat|| 1966
|-
| [[Rasiklal Parikh]] ||Mumbai|| 1964
|-
| [[Vishnuprasad Trivedi]] || Kolkata || 1961
|-
| [[Kaka Kalelkar]] || Ahmedabad || 1959
|-
| [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi|Kanaiyalal M. Munshi]] || Nadiad || 1955
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| Harasidhdhabhai V. Divetiya || Navsari || 1952
|-
| [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi|Kanaiyalal M. Munshi]] || Nadiad || 1949
|-
| [[Ramnarayan V. Pathak]] || Rajkot || 1946
|-
| [[Vidyagauri Nilkanth]] || Baroda || 1943
|-
| [[Ardeshar Khabardar]] || Bombay || 1941
|-
| [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi|Kanaiyalal M. Munshi]] || Karachi || 1937
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| [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] || Ahmedabad || 1936
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| [[Krishnalal Mohanlal Jhaveri]] || Lathi || 1931
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| Bhulabhai Jivanaji Desai || Nadiad || 1931
|-
| [[Anandshankar Dhruv]] || Nadiad || 1928
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| [[Ramanbhai Nilkanth]] || Bombay || 1926
|-
|[[Kamlashankar Trivedi]]
|| Bhavnagar || 1924
|-
| [[Ranchhodlal Udayaram Dave]] || Baroda || 1921
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| [[Hargovinddas Kantawala]] || Ahmedabad || 1920
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| [[Narsinhrao Divetia]] || Surat || 1915
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| Ambalal S. Desai || Rajkot || 1909
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| [[Keshavlal Dhruv]] || Bombay || 1907
|-
| [[Govardhanram Tripathi]] || Ahmedabad || 1905
|}

== Activities ==
[[File:Budh Sabha Ahmedabad.jpg|thumb|[[Budh Sabha]]]]
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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Joshi |first=Ramanlal |author-link=Ramanlal Joshi |date=October–December 1974 |title=A Crop of Fresh Telents |journal=Indian Literature |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |volume= 17 |issue= 4 |pages=13 |jstor=23329892 }} {{closed access}}</ref> 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:<ref name="Abichandani2005">{{cite book|last1=Abichandani|first1=Param A|last2=Dutt|first2=K C.|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Supplementary Entries and Index|edition=2nd|year=2005|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=4690–4691 |oclc=34346409}}</ref>
* [[Uma-Snehrashmi Prize]] for the best literary work
* Shri Arvind Prize for the best book on devotional literature
* Kakasaheb Kalelkar Prize for the best book of biography, essays, or travel
* Bhagini Nivedita Prize is given to the best female writer
* Batubhai Umarwadia Prize for the best one-act play
* Jyotindra H. Dave Prize for the best humorous work
* Parmanand Kunvarji Kapadia Prize for the best book on social education
* P. Trivedi Prize for the best book on education
* Ramprasad Bakshi Prize for the best book on poetic or on criticism
* B. M. Mankad Prize for the best amongst writers first publication of poetry, drama, short story or novel
* Harilal Maneklal Desai Prize for the best book on social philosophy or criticism
* [[Ushnas Prize]] for the best long poem
* [[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 [[ghazal]]s
* 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

==References==
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