Bildungsromans

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman () is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words ('formation' or 'education') and ('novel').

2006 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1986 novel written by Ágota Kristóf

novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

Turkish novel

1983 novel by Hugo Claus

novel by Ibn al-Nafis

novella by Bohumil Hrabal

2022 novel by Olga Tokarczuk

novel by Martin Andersen Nexø

1970 novel by Robertson Davies

Fasana-e-Azad (; , also romanized as Fasana-i-Azad) is an Urdu novel by Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar. It was serialized in Avadh Akhbar between 1878 and 1883 before it was published in four large volumes by the Nawal Kishore Press. The story follows a wandering character named Azad and his companion, Khoji, from the streets of late-nineteenth-century Lucknow to the battlefields of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) in Constantinople and Russia. The work's status as a novel has been debated, but it is thought by most scholars to be one of the first novels (or a proto-novel) in Urdu.