SAARC Literary Award

SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001 FOSWAL Website Five Writers honoured at SAARC Litearure Festival, Hindustan Times March 11, 2013  Official website of SAARC:Apex and Recognized Bodies 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.Mahasweta Devi to get SAARC Literary Award  Oneindia.in March 30, 2007 
Nepali poet, lyricist and translator Suman Pokhrel is only writer to get this award twice.Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Saturday, February 14, 2015

Award Recipients

The year wise list of the award recipients are as follows:
 Year  Poet/Writer Nationality 2019 Mohammad Nurul Huda    2018 Najibullah Manalai    2015 Sitakant Mahapatra   2015 Selina Hossain   2015  Suman Pokhrel   2015 Shahida Shaheen   2015 Nisar Ahmad Chaudhary    2015 Aryan Aroon    2014 Tarannum Riyazhttp://www.savalt.com/2014/saarc-literary-award-goes-to-riyaz/   2013 Abhay KDiplomat Abhay Kumar wins SAARC Prize Indiatimes.com March 13, 2013Diplomat Abhay Kumar wins SAARC Prize  2013 Suman Pokhrel   2013 Farheen Chaudhary    2013 Abdul Khaliq Rashid  2013 Daya Dissanayake   2012 Fakrul Alam  2012 Ayesha Zee Khan   2011 Ibrahim Waheed  2011 Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar (posthumous)  2010 Hamid Mir  2010 Abhi Subedi  2010 Mark Tully  2010 Ju  2009 Jayanta Mahapatra  2009 Uday Prakash   2009 Kamaal Khan   2007 Mahasveta Devi   2006 Maitreyi Pushpa   2006 Zahida Hina  2006 Laxman Gaikwad  2006 Tissa Abeysekara  2002 Laxmi Chand Gupta  2001 Ganesh Narayandas Devy  2001 Shamsur Rahman 

References

Other websites
Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature
FOSWAL Advisory Committee 
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