SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001 FOSWAL Website 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 the only writer to have received the award twice, having been honored in 2013 and 2015.
Award recipients
The year wise list of the award recipients are as follows:
Year Poet/Writer Nationality 2001 Ganesh Narayandas Devy Shamsur Rahman 2002 Laxmi Chand Gupta 2006 Maitreyi Pushpa Zahida Hina Laxman Gaikwad Tissa Abeysekara 2007 Mahasveta Devi 2009 Jayanta Mahapatra Uday Prakash Kamaal Khan 2010 Hamid Mir Abhi Subedi Mark Tully Ju 2011 Ibrahim Waheed Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar (posthumous) 2012 Fakrul Alam Ayesha Zee Khan 2013 Abhay K Suman Pokhrel Farheen Chaudhary Abdul Khaliq Rashid Daya Dissanayake 2014 Tarannum Riyaz 2015 Sitakant Mahapatra Selina Hossain Suman Pokhrel Nisar Ahmad Chaudhary Aryan Aroon 2018 Najibullah Manalai 2019 Mohammad Nurul Huda Ashraf Ali Bhishma Upreti 2023Chador Wangmo
FOSWAL also confers the SAARC Young Writers Award on emerging poets and writers from South Asian countries. Its recipients include Khalida Froagh, Rubana Huq, Vivimarie Vanderpoorten, Nanda Tint Swe, Manu Manjil, Nayyara Rahman and Shahida Shaheen among other. Unlike the SAARC Literary Award, which is presented to eminent poets, writers, and journalists, it is intended to recognize emerging poets and writers.
References
External links Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature FOSWAL Advisory Committee Related News on OneIndia Related News on Hindustan Times Related News on NDTV Related News on Afgan Embassy Related News on Outlook India Related News on Greater Kashmir