List of Urdu novelists

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

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
 * 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
 * Farhat Ishtiaq 1980
 * Sarwat Nazir

21st century

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