The SAARC Literary Award is given every year by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001. Some people who have received this award include Shamshur Rahman, Mahasweta Devi, Jayanta Mahapatra, Abhi Subedi, Mark Tully, Sitakant Mahapatra, Nayyara Rahman, Uday Prakash, Suman Pokhrel, and Abhay K. Suman Pokhrel, a Nepali poet, lyricist, and translator, is the only person to have won this award twice.

Award Recipients

The list of award recipients by year is as follows:

FOSWAL gives the "SAARC Young Writers Award" to young poets and writers from South Asian countries. Some of the people who have won this award include Khalida Froagh, Rubana Huq, Vivimarie Vanderpoorten, Nanda Tint Swe, Manu Manjil, and Nayyara Rahman.