Noor Zaheer

Noor Zaheer is a writer, theatre director, and researcher. She writes in English, Hindi, and Urdu. Important published works include:

• My God is a Woman (a novel that won the Foundation of SAARC Writers Literary Award 2010)

• Denied by Allah 

• Silent Dunes

• Raging Forests (short story collection)

• Mere Hisse ki Roshnai

• Syahi ki ek Boond (a memoir that won the Delhi Hindi Academy Kriti Samman award in 2006)

• Surkh Karavan ke Hamsafar (travelogue of Pakistan)

• Ret Par Khoon (short story collection)

• Sayani Diwani (Urdu short story collection)

• Patthar ke Sainik (plays for children)

• Aaj ke Naam (biography of Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

• The Dancing Lama: Buddhist Performance Traditions of North Western Himalayas

• The Paper Apparel (translation of Ismat Chughtai’s autobiography)

• The Language They Chose: Women’s Writing in Urdu Vol I: Fiction and Vol II: Non-Fiction (a landmark collection of women’s writing in Urdu, which reveals the versatility, creativity, and intelligence of this vast body of work.)

Past awards, fellowships, and positions held:

• Ladli Media Award (2015)

• Delhi Hindi Academy Shikhar Samman in 2006 and again in 2017

• Senior Fellowship, Department of Culture, Government of India

• The Times Fellowship for Research

• Writer in Residence: Sahitya Academy, Delhi,

• Sangam Writers Residency, Bangalore

• President of the Indian People’s Theatre Association

• National secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women