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Attia Hosain

Born

in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

January 01, 1913

Died

January 25, 1998

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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. 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 and Lucknow University.

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

Attia's niece is the Pakistani author Muneeza Shamsie and her great-niece is author Kamila Shamsie. British television director Waris Hussein is her son and film producer Shama Habibullah is her daughte ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,203 ratings · 184 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sunlight on a Broken Column 3.92 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 1961 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phoenix Fled 3.65 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No New Lands, No New Seas liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Party it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cooking the Indian Way by Attia Hosain, Sita Pasricha it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La casa delle donne by Attia Hosain, Valeria Bastia (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Licht auf zerborstenen Säulen liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1961	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Cooking by Attia Hosain, Sita Pasricha 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Cooking Guide to Indian Cooking 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

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“The whole city was richer because he was in it, and every street, and turn of a road held the possibility of his appearance.”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

tags: attraction, city

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“They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.”
― Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)

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Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin (Turkey)

10 votes 14.9%

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (Japan)

7 votes 10.4%

A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi (Afghanistan)

6 votes 9.0%

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (China)

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (China)

5 votes 7.5%

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (China)

4 votes 6.0%

Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon (Thailand [Siam])

4 votes 6.0%

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (China)

3 votes 4.5%

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan by Lady Sarashina (Japan)

3 votes 4.5%

I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (South Korea)

3 votes 4.5%

House of Cards by Sudha Murty (India)

2 votes 3.0%

Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain (India)

2 votes 3.0%

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip (Vietnam)

1 vote 1.5%

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (India)

1 vote 1.5%

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (India)

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