SAARC Literary Award
SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature 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:| Year | Poet/Writer | Nationality |
| 2018 | Najibullah Manalai | ' |
| 2015 | Sitakant Mahapatra | ' |
| 2015 | Selina Hossain | ' |
| 2015 | Suman Pokhrel | ' |
| 2015 | Nisar Ahmad Chaudhary | ' |
| 2015 | Aryan Aroon | ' |
| 2014 | Tarannum Riyaz | ' |
| 2013 | Abhay K | ' |
| 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 | ' |
| 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 |
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.