 His book of literary criticism, "Nivesh", won the Ramanlal Joshi Prize, instituted by the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (Gujarati Literary Council), in 1994.In 2012, he was the first recipient of the Girnar Sahitya Shiromani Puraskar, awarded by the Indian public service broadcaster Doordarshan in Ahmedabad.He has also received the Umashankar Joshi Award (1986), the Jayant Pathak Poetry Award (1984), the Critics Award (1986), the Zaverchand Meghani Award (2011), the Rashtriya Kalakendra Appreciation Award (2014), and the Kala Ratna Award from the Gujarat Kala Pratishthan (2016).