Hoori Noorani

Hoori Noorani runs the Karachi-based publishing house Maktaba-e-Danyal, which she inherited from her late father, Malik Noorani. Following her early education in Karachi, her love for literature and linguistics led her to pursue a master’s degree in philology, with a major in Russian and world literature, at the People’s Friendship University in Moscow. After graduating in 1983, she returned to Karachi and briefly taught Russian at the Russian Cultural Centre before joining her father’s publishing business. Maktaba-e-Danyal is known for publishing renowned authors such as Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, Syed Sibte Hassan, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Iftikhar Arif, Fehmida Riaz, Habib Jalib, and many others, as well as works by authors from India. Currently, the publishing house is working on a series of Urdu translations of world literature and books by Pakistani authors writing in English. Ms. Noorani is also a trained classical dancer and has translated Henrich Borovik’s famous play Interview in Buenos Aires from Russian into Urdu.