Selected Women Fiction Writer of 20th Century: In the Context of Realism

Abstract

Like the other genre of Urdu, the pride of fiction writing is with male writers, but female writers have also added a lot to it. Among them names of Khaton Akram, Mrs Abdul Qadir, Abbasi Begam, Khadija Mastoor, Hajra Masroor and Qurat ul Ain Haider are very important. Praimchand was the first fiction writer who started fiction writing in a realistic manner. Realistic fiction writers kept themselves attached to internal and external aspects of life, specially the female fiction writers of 20th century, did apprecial work in the field. Realistic writing of every period has a different trend. Inspite of passing centuries of time importance of realistic fiction writing cannot be ignored. Realistic writing in Urdu is a living and popular trend of fiction writing.