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
Websitefoundationsaarcwriters.com

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 are some of the recipients of this award. Nepali poet, lyricist and translator Suman Pokhrel is only writer to get this award twice.

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


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