Umera Ahmed

Umera Ahmed is a Pakistani novelist and screenwriter from Sialkot, and one of the most widely read Urdu fiction writers of her generation. She began in 1998 by writing stories for monthly Urdu digests; Zindagi Gulzar Hai, her first digest story, later became a well-known television drama.

Her best-known novels include Peer-e-Kamil, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Shehr-e-Zaat, Amarbail, Aab-e-Hayat and Alif. Many of them deal with faith and spirituality, family life and the pressures society puts on women. She has written more than thirty books, and over twenty of them have been adapted into television serials. Her work has also been translated into English, Arabic and Hindi.