named after a sri lankan tamil philosopher ananda coomaraswamy, the "ananda coomaraswamy fellowship" was instituted in 1996 and is offered to "a person of eminence in the field of asian art, culture, literature and language studies" from asian countries to pursue literary projects. it was announced on three individuals, sri lankan archaeologist senake bandaranayake, japanese author and anthropologist chie nakane, and uzbekistani professor azad n. shamatov. the fellowship was discontinued after its first conferral and was revived in 2005 but no conferment has been made since then.