Attia Hosain | |
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 Hosain in the 1930s | |
| Born | 20 October 1913 Lucknow, United Provinces, British India |
| Died | 25 January 1998 (aged 84) London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Indian, British |
| Genre | Novels |
| Spouse | Ali Bahadur Habibullah (1909–1982) |
| Children | Waris Hussein, Shama Habibullah |
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 novel Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) and a collection of short stories titled Phoenix Fled. Her career began in England in semi-exile making a contribution to post-colonial literature. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Aamer Hussein and Kamila Shamsie have acknowledged her influence.
- ^ "Frauendatenbank fembio.org". fembio.org (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ Distant Traveller, new and selected fiction: edited by Aamer Hossein with Shama Habibullah, with foreword and afterword by them, and introduction by Ritu Menon (Women Unlimited, India 2013). This contains the first publication of a section of Attia Hosain's unfinished novel, No New Lands, No New Seas.
- ^ Ghoshal, Somak (15 August 2017). "India at 70: A Muslim Woman's Story of Nationalism, Partition and her awakening into Feminism". HuffPost.
- ^ Hussein, Aamer (31 January 1998). "Obituary: Attia Hosain". The Guardian.