The Hum Award for Best Writer Drama Serial is one of the Hum Awards of Merit presented annually by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to writers working in the drama industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to nominate for. Best Writer Drama Serial is considered the most important of the Hum Awards, as it represents writing, screenplay, story, base, plot and other efforts put forth into a drama. Consequently, Best Writer Drama is one of the final award that given at the end of Hum Awards ceremony. Hum Award for Best Drama Writer Serial at 1st Hum Awards ceremony is won by acclaimed serial Maat held on 28 April 2013.^[1]

History

The best Writer drama serial category originates with the 1st Hum Awards ceremony since 2013. This category has been given to the best writer/playwrighter drama serial of previous year to the ceremony held. Since Hum Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:

• 2013 → present: Hum Award for Best Writer Drama Serial

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the drama serial first telecast; normally this is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a drama serial exhibited telecast during 2005 then this will be eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Writer Drama Serial Hum Awards, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the drama serial, and the television writer. Till from 2013, the Best writer Drama Serial award has given to original writers rather than to Production company.

As of the first ceremony, nine dramas were nominated for the award. All of the nine nominee were also included for best director category with additional one extra nominees which were not included in best writer drama serial category. Umera Ahmad and Faiza Iftikhar nominated twice in the same category for their works.

For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized dramas writer of dramas that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.

2010s