SAARC Literary Award facts for kids

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.

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	India
2006	Maitreyi Pushpa	India
	Zahida Hina	Pakistan
	Laxman Gaikwad	India
	Tissa Abeysekara	Sri Lanka
2007	Mahasveta Devi	India
2009	Jayanta Mahapatra	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.

See also

In Spanish: Premio Literario SAARC para niños