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Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 25 January 1998) was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. [2] [3] She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu. [4]
Aug 24, 2021 · Attia Hosain: an exquisite writer who deftly analysed female power. Hosain’s fiction evokes a lost world—but also one in great flux. By Kamila Shamsie. August 24, 2021. Attia Hosain. Credit: Vic Singh. Attia Hosain was the first person to ever speak to me as though I was an adult.
British television director Waris Hussein is her son and film producer Shama Habibullah is her daughte. Attia Hosain (1913–1998) was a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar background. She moved to Britain in 1947.
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Sunlight on a Broken Column is a novel by Attia Hosain, which was published in 1961. The novel, mainly set in Lucknow, is an autobiographical account by a fictional character called Laila, who is a 15-year-old orphaned daughter of a rich Muslim family of Taluqdars.
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Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 25 January 1998) was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu.
Sep 1, 2021 · Features. Book Club. Attia Hosain reissued: Reflections of a dying British Raj and the desire for independence. The understated literary figure Attia Hosain has often gone unnoticed when recalling the great writers of the partition era.
Jan 23, 1998 · Attia Hosain was born into a wealthy landowning family in northern India. Her father was educated at Cambridge University, and her mother was the founder of an institute for women's education and welfare. Hosain attended the Isabella Thoburn College at the University of Lucknow, becoming the first woman from a landowning family to graduate in 1933.
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