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Award Recipients

The year wise list of the award recipients are as follows: Recipients of SAARC Literary Award 2015

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.

References

External links

Foundation of SAARC Writers and LiteratureFOSWAL Advisory Committee

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Literary Award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c ...