Raghuveer Chaudhari
A Gujarati novelist, poet and critic with more than 125 books and a Jnanpith Award, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2024.
Raghuveer Chaudhari is a novelist, poet and critic, and one of the leading figures of modern Gujarati literature. He was named for the Padma Shri in 2024 in the field of literature and education, from Gujarat [1].
Writer
He was born on 5 December 1938 [2]. He taught at Gujarat University, where he was professor and head of Hindi in the postgraduate school of languages [2].
Chaudhari has written more than 125 books, including 44 novels, 12 short-story collections and 8 collections of poems, as well as plays, travel writing, biographical sketches and criticism [2]. His citation describes him as a writer with a social conscience and a love of nature, admired by readers and critics alike [2].
Honours
His novel trilogy Uparvas won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977 [2]. He became a fellow of the Sahitya Akademi in 2013 and received the 51st Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honour, in 2015 [2].
He is a managing trustee of the Grambharati and Lokbharati rural universities, and a trustee of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad [2].
Sources
- [1] Padma Awards 2024: list of awardees — Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Accessed 15 October 2026.
- [2] Padma Awards 2024: citation for Raghuveer Chaudhari — Padma Awards, Government of India. Accessed 15 October 2026.
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