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 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	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

See also

In Spanish: Premio Literario SAARC para niños