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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.
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.
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.
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. Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College.
Feb 29, 2024 · This article explores Attia Hosain's portrayal of migratory experiences in No New Lands, No New Seas on three levels. Firstly, it contends with how the migrant writer, Hosain, navigates border-making and the reorientations of ‘home' within these half-formed, tentative chapters.
Oct 31, 2013 · Attia Hosain was born in such a world of deep conflicts and intense debates in 1913. Her family subscribed to progressive ideas. While her father had studied at Cambridge...
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.
Jan 2, 2009 · Attia Hosain was born in Lucknow in 1913 into a distinguished Muslim family, which belonged to the feudal order the Taluqdars of Oudh. She has described this world vividly in the story collection. Phoenix Fled (London, Chatto and Windus, 1953) and her novel, Sunlight on A Broken Column (London, Chatto and Windus, 1961).
Attia Hosain. Born in Lucknow, India in 1913. (At the moment, I give the titles, year of publication, publisher, ISBN where I have it, and the blurb that appears on that edition. Novels. Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961, Chatto & Windus; 1988, Virago Press, with a new introduction by Anita Desai [ISBN: 0 86068 643 4]) "`My life changed.
