Attia Hosain
British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 ā 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 short stories named 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.
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Born | 20 October 1913 Lucknow, United Provinces, British India |
Died | 25 January 1998(1998-01-25) (aged 84) London, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Indian, British |
Genre | Novels |
Spouse | Ali Bahadur Habibullah (1909ā1982) |
Children | Waris Hussein, Shama Habibullah |
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