Attia Hosain

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Attia Hosain
Born 1913
Died 1998
Occupation Writer
Nationality Indian
Genres Novels

Attia Hosain is a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow of a privileged background. She moved to Britain in 1947.

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[edit] Biography

Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College.[1] She was the daughter of Sheikh Shahid Husain Kidwai and Nisar Fatima, the daughter of Syed Maqbool Hussain Alvi of Kakori.

She studied at Isabella Thoburn College from the age of fifteen[1] and Lucknow University.[2]

She moved to Britain in 1947 and became a broadcaster for the BBC, hosting a popular women's radio programme.

Attia's great-niece is the Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie.

[edit] Awards

  • Gold medal when she became the first women from a Taluqdar family to graduate from the University of Lucknow in 1933. [2] (She married Ali Bahadur Haibullah in the same year on February 27th).[1]
  • The Attia Hosain Trust at Newnham College, Cambridge was set up to fund public lectures on multiculturalism and is presently (2007) funding the fees of South Asian women students at the College.[1]

[edit] List of works (incomplete)

  • Phoenix Fled, Chatto & Windus, 1953
  • Sunlight on a Broken Column, Chatto & Windus, 1961
  • Cooking the Indian Way, 1967

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Interview with Attia Hosain 1991 at harappa.com accessed July 2007
  2. ^ a b Attia Hosain in the Literary Encyclopedia by Muneeza Shamsie accessed July 2007

[edit] External links

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