| SAARC Literary Award | |
| Subheader: | Award to individuals from SAARC Countries for contributions to Literature |
| Sponsor: | FOSWAL |
| Firstawarded: | 2001 |
SAARC Literary Award is an annual award conferred by the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL) since 2001[1] [2] [3] 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.[4] Nepali poet, lyricist, and translator Suman Pokhrel is only writer to have been given this award twice.
The year wise list of the award recipients are as follows:
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| Year | Poet/Writer | Nationality | |
| 2001 | Ganesh Narayandas Devy[5] |  India | |
| Shamsur Rahman |  Bangladesh | ||
| 2002 | Laxmi Chand Gupta | India | |
| 2006 | India | ||
| Zahida Hina |  Pakistan | ||
| Laxman Gaikwad | India | ||
| Tissa Abeysekara |  Sri Lanka | ||
| 2007 | Mahasveta Devi[6] | India | |
| 2009 | Jayanta Mahapatra[7] | India | |
| India | |||
| Kamaal Khan | India | ||
| 2010 | Hamid Mir | Pakistan | |
| Abhi Subedi |  Nepal | ||
| Mark Tully | India | ||
| Ju | |||
| 2011 | Ibrahim Waheed[8] |  Maldives | |
| Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar (posthumous) | Pakistan | ||
| 2012 | Fakrul Alam[9] | Bangladesh | |
| Ayesha Zee Khan[10] | Pakistan | ||
| 2013 | Abhay K[11] | India | |
| Suman Pokhrel[12] | Nepal | ||
| Farheen Chaudhary | Pakistan | ||
| Abdul Khaliq Rashid[13] |  Afghanistan | ||
| Sri Lanka | |||
| 2014 | Tarannum Riyaz[14] | India | |
| 2015 | Sitakant Mahapatra | India | |
| Selina Hossain[15] | Bangladesh | ||
| Suman Pokhrel | Nepal | ||
| Shahida Shaheen | Pakistan | ||
| Nisar Ahmad Chaudhary | Pakistan | ||
| Aryan Aroon | Afghanistan | ||
| 2018 | Najibullah Manalai [16] | Afghanistan | |
| 2019 | Anisuzzaman[17] | 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.