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A list of first ever novel written in various languages.

Language Year of publication Name of the novel Name in native language Author Country
Assamese 1890 Bhanumati ভানুমতী Padmanath Gohain Baruah India
Arabic 1160 (approx.) Hayy ibn Yaqdhan حي بن يقظان Ibn Tufayl Al-Andalus
Aromanian 1903 Graves Without Crosses Mirmintsã fãrã crutsi Nuși Tulliu Romania
Bengali 1857 Alaler Gharer Dulal[1] আলালের ঘরের দুলাল Peary Chand Mitra India
Bhojpuri 1956 Bindiya[2] बिंदिया Ramnath Pandey India
Burmese 1904 Maung Yin Maung, Ma Me Ma[3] မောင်ရင်မောင် မမယ်မ James Hla Kyaw Myanmar
Catalan 1283 Romance of Evast and Blaquerna Romanç d'Evast e Blaquerna Ramon Llull Majorca (Crown of Aragon)
Chinese 14th century Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 Luo Guanzhong China
French 1607 L'Astrée L'Astrée Honoré d'Urfé France
Hindi 1882 Pariksha Guru[4] परीक्षागुरू Lala Srinivas Das India
Japanese 11th century The Tale of Genji 源氏物語 Murasaki Shikibu Japan
Kannada 1899 Indira Bai Gulvadi Venkata Rao India
Malayalam 1887 Kundalatha കുന്ദലത Appu Nedungadi India
Meitei 1930 Madhavi[5] মাধবী Lamabam Kamal Singh India
Marathi 1857 Yamuna Paryatan[5] यमुना पर्यटन Baba Padamji India
Nepali 1903 Bir Charitra[6] वीर चरित्र Girish Ballabh Joshi Nepal
Northern Ndebele 1956 The Ndebele Uprising[7] Umvukela WamaNdebele Ndabaningi Sithole Zimbabwe
Odia 1888 Padmamali[8] ପଦ୍ମମାଳୀ Umesh Chandra Sarkar India
Persian 1937 The Blind Owl بوف کور Sadegh Hedayat Iran
Pashto 1912 Mah Rukh Rahat Zakheli Pakistan
Punjabi 1898 Sundari ਸੁੰਦਰੀ Bhai Vir Singh India
Russian 1842 Dead Souls Мёртвые души Nikolai Gogol Russia
Sanskrit 7th century Kadambari[5] कादम्बरी Bāṇabhaṭṭa India
Shona 1956 Feso[9] Feso Solomon Mutswairo Zimbabwe
Spanish 1605 Don Quixote[10] Don Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Spain
Tamil 1879 Prathapa Mudaliar Charitram[5] பிரதாப முதலியார் சரித்திரம் Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai India
Telugu 1867 Sri Rangaraju Charitra[5] Narahari Gopalakrishnama Setty India
Turkish 1872 The Love of Talat and Fitnat[11] Taaşşuk-ı Talat ve Fitnat Sami Frashëri Turkey
Urdu 1869 Mirat-ul-Uroos[5] مراۃ العروس Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi India
Uzbek 1926 Bygone Days[12] O’tkan Kunlar Abdullah Qodiriy Uzbekistan
Xhosa 1907 USamson[13] USamson S.E.K. Mqhayi South Africa

References

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  1. ^ "আলালের ঘরের দুলাল - বাংলাপিডিয়া". bn.banglapedia.org (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  2. ^ Bhojapurī nibandha nikuñja: Bhojapurī ke taintālīsa go cunala nibandha (in Bihari). Akhila Bhāratīya Bhojapurī Sāhitya Sammelana. 1977.
  3. ^ Pe, U. On (1958-02-01). "Modern Burmese Literature". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  4. ^ Kalsi, A. S. (1992). "Parīksāguru (1882): The First Hindi Novel and the Hindu Elite". Modern Asian Studies. 26 (4): 763–790. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00010064. ISSN 1469-8099. S2CID 144281907.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Venkatesh, Karthik (2017-01-01). "The maiden novels of Indian languages". mint. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  6. ^ Dhakal, Ashish (26 December 2021). "The story of books in Nepal". Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  7. ^ Kamusella, Tomasz; Ndhlovu, Finex (2017-11-21). The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-137-01593-8.
  8. ^ Mohanty, S (25 April 2011). Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: A View from India. Springer. p. 106. ISBN 9780230118348.
  9. ^ Mutasa, D. E. (1999-03-01). "Allegory, realism and fantasy in Feso". South African Journal of African Languages. 19 (4): 245–249. doi:10.1080/02572117.1999.10587403 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
  10. ^ Bloom, Harold (2003-12-13). "Harold Bloom on Don Quixote, the first modern novel". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  11. ^ Arslanbenzer, Hakan (2019-09-14). "Şemsettin Sami Frasheri: The first Turkish novelist and lexicographer". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  12. ^ Reese, Mark. "Bygone Days, the first Uzbek novel, is a political love story set in the colonial past | Calvert Reads". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  13. ^ Opland, Jeff (2007). "The First Novel in Xhosa". Research in African Literatures. 38 (4): 87–110. doi:10.2979/RAL.2007.38.4.87. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 20109540. S2CID 153584010.
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