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The paper deals with a problem of self-realization of a heroin of contemporary Hindi novels. One of possible options is a transformation of a reading heroin into a writer. Though even heroines of one of the earliest novels by Premchand (“Vardan”, 1912) became poetesses, who devoted lives to their Mother-land, some heroines of many Hindi writers of the XX-th century (Jainendra Kumar, Ilachandra Joshi, Upendranath Ashk) were presented as devoted readers. A scope of their reading will be considered, because it shows sources of spiritual and mental maturing, life goals of a heroin, gives a characteristic of other characters. Novels by prominent Hindi writer Mridula Garg (“Uske hisse kii dhup”, “Chittacobra”, “Main aur main”) show that one of the author’s main ideas is the way of reaching self-realization by becoming either a poetess or a writer. These three novels have a similar basic plot, arrangement of main characters and a common idea of a woman’s self-expression during a process of creating literature. It might be explained by the biography of Mridula Garg herself, who was born in a very intelligent family, four children of which became prominent writers. Three first novels of M. Garg compose a kind of a trilogy, whose main heroin (Manisha/ Manu/ Madhavi) is in a search of her own identity, destination, a purpose of life. We can see some typological connections of these heroines with either Madam Bovary or heroines of Jainendra Kumar (Sunita, Kalyani) or some Hindi women-writers. In the novels by M.Garg, based on a kind of love-triangle, not only a heroine, but her both partners are important, because they can help or prevent a heroin from self-realization. This idea is developed in some novels of other Hindi women-writers. It confirms that writing is a most important form of existence of an intelligent modern heroine.