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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.
Jan 18, 2015 · Attia Hosain was reborn as a writer, gained a new transnational reputation, stayed in the public eye for a decade, indeed until her eighty-fourth birthday a few days before her final illness in 1997. Her influence on two generations to follow would be and is immeasurable.
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, writer: born Lucknow, India 20 October 1913; married Ali Bahadur Habibullah (one son, one daughter); died London 23 January 1998.
Jan 25, 1998 · 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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Jun 14, 2021 · Attia Hosain (1913–1998) was born in Lucknow and educated at La Martiniere and Isabella Thoburn College, blending an English liberal education with that of a traditional Muslim household where she was taught Persian, Urdu and Arabic. She was the first woman to graduate from among the feudal ‘Taluqdari’ families into which she was born.
