SAARC Literary Award

SAARC Literary Award
Award to individuals from SAARC Countries for contributions to Literature
Awarded forLiterary award in South Asia
Sponsored byFOSWAL
First awarded2001
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SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001 Shamshur Rahman, Mahasweta Devi, Jayanta Mahapatra, Abhi Subedi, Mark Tully, Sitakant Mahapatra, Uday Prakash, Suman Pokhrel, and Abhay K have been some of the recipients of this award. Nepali poet, lyricist, and translator Suman Pokhrel is only writer to have been given this award twice.[citation needed]

Award Recipients

The year wise list of the award recipients are as follows:

Group photo of SAARC Literary Award 2015 recipients
Recipients of SAARC Literary Award 2013
Year Poet/Writer Nationality
2001 Ganesh Narayandas Devy  India
Shamsur Rahman  Bangladesh
2002 Laxmi Chand Gupta[citation needed]  India
2006 Maitreyi Pushpa[citation needed]  India
Zahida Hina  Pakistan
Laxman Gaikwad  India
Tissa Abeysekara  Sri Lanka
2007 Mahasveta Devi  India
2009 Jayanta Mahapatra[better source needed]  India
Uday Prakash  India
Kamaal Khan  India
2010 Hamid Mir  Pakistan
Abhi Subedi    Nepal
Mark Tully  India
Ju  Burma
2011 Ibrahim Waheed  Maldives
Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar (posthumous)  Pakistan
2012 Fakrul Alam  Bangladesh
Ayesha Zee Khan  Pakistan
2013 Abhay K  India
Suman Pokhrel    Nepal
Farheen Chaudhary  Pakistan
Abdul Khaliq Rashid  Afghanistan
Daya Dissanayake  Sri Lanka
2014 Tarannum Riyaz  India
2015 Sitakant Mahapatra  India
Selina Hossain  Bangladesh
Suman Pokhrel    Nepal
Shahida Shaheen  Pakistan
Nisar Ahmad Chaudhary  Pakistan
Aryan Aroon  Afghanistan
2018 Najibullah Manalai  Afghanistan
2019 Anisuzzaman  Bangladesh

FOSWAL also confers "SAARC Young Writers Award" to the emerging poets and writers from South Asian countries. Khalida Froagh, Rubana Huq, Vivimarie Vanderpoorten, Nanda Tint Swe, Manu Manjil, Nayyara Rahman are some of its recipients.


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