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{{Infobox magazine
| title = Kavilok Magazine
| logo =
| logo_size = 
| image_file = Kavilok coverpage.jpg
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| image_caption = coverpage of Kavilok<br />
January - February 2016 Issue
|editor = [[Dhiru Parikh]]
| editor_title = Editor in chief
| editor2 = [[Praful Raval]]
| editor_title2 = Co-editor
| previous_editor = * [[Rajendra Shah (author)|Rajendra Shah]]
* Jashubhai Shah
* [[Suresh Dalal]]
* [[Priyakant Maniar]]
* [[Jayant Parekh]]
* [[Niranjan Bhagat]]
* [[Ashok Chavda]]
| category = [[Literature]]
| frequency = [[Bimonthly]]
| format = Print
| circulation =
| publisher = Kavilok Trust
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| founder = [[Rajendra Shah (author)|Rajendra Shah]]
| founded = 1957
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| country = [[India]]
| based = [[Ahmedabad]]
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
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'''''Kavilok''''' ([[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]: કવિલોક), a publication of Kavilok Trust, is a [[Gujarati language]] bimonthly poetry journal published in [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], India. The current editor is [[Dhiru Parikh]] and co-editor is [[Praful Raval]].<ref name= "gv">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Kavilok Trust
|encyclopedia=Gujarati Viswakosh|year=1992|publisher=Gujarat Vishwakosh Trust|volume=4|location=Ahmedabad|page=260}}</ref><ref name= "gs">{{cite encyclopedia
|title=Kavilok|encyclopedia=Gujarati Sahitya Kosh (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature)|year=1996|publisher=Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|volume=3|location=Ahmedabad|page=87}}</ref>

==History==
The Kavilok poetry journal was founded by [[Rajendra Shah (author)|Rajendra Shah]] in 1957. The first issue of the journal was published in Mumbai in crown size under the editorship of Rajendra Shah, [[Suresh Dalal]] and Jashubhai Shah. From the 32nd issue, [[Jayant Parekh]] replaced Jashubhai Shah as an editor. From the 37th to the 66th issue, [[Priyakant Maniar]] served as editor with Jayant Parekh. In January 1970, the 73rd issue was published in Ahmedabad in foolscap size. The editors were [[Bachubhai Ravat]] and Rajendra Shah. After the journal moved to Ahmedabad, [[Niranjan Bhagat]] also served as an editor for approximately one year. Since 1977, the journal has been edited by Dhiru [[Parikh]]. From 2004 to 2006, [[Ashok Chavda]] served as a co-editor. Praful Raval is currently co-editor of the journal. [1]<ref name= "gv"/>

== Content ==
The journal publishes poetry, translations of world poetry, reviews and criticisms of poetry, and biographical articles about poets.<ref name= "gs"/>

== Special issues ==
* ''Mahakavya Visheshank'' (1982; Translation and discussion of major epics of the world)
* ''Panchmahakavya Visheshank'' (1983; Criticism of [[Sanskrit language|sanskrit]] epics)
* ''Gadyakavya Visheshank'' (1984; Discussion of prose poems of Gujarati literature and World literature)
* ''T.S Eliot Visheshank'' (1988; Poet [[T.S Eliot]])<ref name= "gs"/>

== See also ==
* [[List of Gujarati-language magazines]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |search= Kavilok}}

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[[Category:Literary magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1957]]
[[Category:Poetry literary magazines]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language magazines]]
[[Category:Mass media in Ahmedabad]]

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