SAARC Literary Award

SAARC Literary Award
SAARC Literary Award
Award to individuals from SAARC Countries for contributions to Literature
Awarded for	Literary award in South Asia
Sponsored by	FOSWAL
First award	2001
Website	foundationsaarcwriters.com

SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001^[1]^[2]^[3] 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.^[4] Nepali poet, lyricist, and translator Suman Pokhrel is only writer to have been given this award twice.^{[citation needed]}

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Year	Poet/Writer	Nationality
2001	Ganesh Narayandas Devy^[5]	India
2001	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^[6]	India
2009	Jayanta Mahapatra^[7]^{[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^[8]	Maldives
2011	Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar (posthumous)	Pakistan
2012	Fakrul Alam^[9]	Bangladesh
2012	Ayesha Zee Khan^[10]	Pakistan
2013	Abhay K^[11]	India
	Suman Pokhrel^[12]	Nepal
	Farheen Chaudhary	Pakistan
	Abdul Khaliq Rashid^[13]	Afghanistan
	Daya Dissanayake	Sri Lanka
2014	Tarannum Riyaz^[14]	India
2015	Sitakant Mahapatra	India
	Selina Hossain^[15]	Bangladesh
	Suman Pokhrel	Nepal
	Shahida Shaheen	Pakistan
	Nisar Ahmad Chaudhary	Pakistan
	Aryan Aroon	Afghanistan
2018	Najibullah Manalai ^[16]	Afghanistan
2019	Mohammad Nurul Huda^[17]	Bangladesh
	Ashraf Ali^[17]	Maldives
	Bhishma Upreti^[17]	Nepal
2023	Chador Wangmo^[18]	Bhutan

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