20 ا ا ا ا ت ٹا ص ار ی اس پ ش ارد پ رارٹ یم ی  فمج اد  زا ٹا ع مزاد  پ را کج پ یر اتک ر نر نز م ساح دت ارد تیں ص س ا اتا Abstracts ATradition of Biographical documentary novel in Urdu from the beginning to the 21 st Century By Dr. Irum Saba, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Urdu Language & Literature, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi. Dr. Muhammad Zahid Umar, Lecturer, Punjab College, Rawalpindi The biographical documentary elements are visible in the Urdu novels from the very beginning of novel like English. The real life colors gives the novel the color of biographical documentation. Most of the critics agree that the novel Nishtar (1790-91 in Hindi Persian language) lays the initial traces of Urdu novel writing. Later on translated in Urdu in 1894. Another important name in the biographical documentary novel tradition is Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa (1857-1931). His novels Umrao Jan Ada (1899), Zat Sharif (1900), and Sharifzada (1900) are novels with biographical elements and are derived from real life. From Raswa to the twenty-first century, we see biographical documentary elements in important novelists like Shamsur Rahman Farooqi, Ahsan Farooqi, Ahmed Bashir, Intzar Hussain etc. In the tradition of Urdu novel, not only biographical documentation is found, but