List of Urdu novelists

This is a list of notable Urdu language writers with their date of birth who wrote Novels in Urdu.

19th Century

20th century

• Shaukat Thanvi 1904
• Mumtaz Mufti 1905
• Krishan Chander 1914
• Mirza Adeeb 1914
• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas 1914
• Naseem Hijazi 1914
• Ismat Chughtai 1915
• Rajinder Singh Bedi 1915
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi 1916
• Jagan Nath Azad 1918
• Razia Butt 1924
• Shaukat Siddiqui 1923
• Intizar Hussain 1923
• Ashfaq Ahmed 1925
• Harcharan Chawla
• Ibn-e-Insha 1927
• Qurratulain Hyder 1927
• Altaf Fatima 1927
• Begum Akhtar Riazuddin 1928
• Ibn-e-Safi 1928
• Bano Qudsia 1928
• Shabnam Romani 1928
• Altaf Fatima 1929
• Fatima Surayya Bajia 1930
• Obaidullah Baig 1936
• Muhammad Mansha Yaad 1937
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar 1939
• Anis Nagi 1939
• Mazhar ul Islam 1949
• Mirza Athar Baig 1950
• Zulfiqar Gilani 1960
• Pervez Bilgrami 1962
• Muhammad Asim Butt 1966
• Azhar Abidi 1968
• Rahman Abbas 1972
• Akhtar Raza Saleemi 1974
• Ali Akbar Natiq 1974
• Idris Azad 1969

21st century

• Rahman Abbas
• Jogindar Paal
• Nand Kishore Vikram
• Hashim Nadeem

References

1. Urdu Novels Collection
2. Urdu Novel List