Anil Chavda

Some of his works include Savaar Laine (Bringing the Dawn to You) (2012), a collection of ghazals (a poetic form), which won him the 2014 Yuva Puraskar literary award, instituted by the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) in Delhi.

[1][2][3] Anil Chavda was born on 10 May 1985, in Karela (Lakhtar), a village in the Surendranagar district (Gujarat, India), to Premajibhai and Manibahen.

[1][4] Chavda began writing poetry during his college years and was influenced by well-known Gujarati language poets including: Chinu Modi, Adil Mansuri, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, and Labhshankar Thakar.

Subsequently, his writings were published in Gujarati literary magazines such as: Gazalvishw, Dhabak, Parivesh, Shabdasrishti, Kavilok, Kumar, Navneet Samarpan, Parab, Shabdasar and Tadarthya.

[3] Presently, he serves in the advisory board of the Ahmedabad International Literature Festival[5] On 15 February 2012, he released his first ghazal anthology Savaar Laine (Bringing the Dawn to You), published by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir.

The language is described as simple, reader-friendly, lucid and full of freshness carrying a natural poetic flow and rhythm not only of the words but of the content as well.

Anil Chavda at Yuva Gaurav Award ceremony
Anil Chavda At New Delhi