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Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 25 January 1998) [1] 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] She wrote the semi-autobiographical Sunlight on a Broken Column and a collection of ...
Aug 24, 2021 · Attia Hosain. Credit: Vic Singh. Attia Hosain was the first person to ever speak to me as though I was an adult. I was eleven years old, in London with my parents and sister for a summer holiday, escaping Karachi’s oppressive June heat. My mother told her aunt Attia that I wanted to be a writer, and Attia did something no grown-up had ever ...
edit data. 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. Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College. She was the daughter of Sheikh Shahid Husain Kidwai and Nisar Fatima, the daughter of Syed Maqbool ...
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Attia Hosain 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. She wrote the semi-autobiographical Sunlight on a Broken Column and a collection of short stories named Phoenix Fled. Her career began in England in semi-exile making a contribution to post ...
Sunlight on a Broken Column is a novel by Attia Hosain, which was published in 1961. [1] 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. It is a novel by a Muslim lady on the theme of Partition of India into India ...
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Sep 1, 2021 · Attia Hosain is an important yet relatively obscure figure of South Asian literary history, compared to her contemporaries Anita Desai and Bapsi Sidhwa. Hosain was born in Lucknow in 1913. While her father had studied at Cambridge University, her mother had established an institute for women’s education and welfare in Lucknow.
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.
