Attia Hosain

Attia Hosain

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Attia Hosain is a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar (minor nobility) background. She moved to Britain in 1947.

Biography

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 [http://www.harappa.com/attia/attiahosaininterview.html Interview with Attia Hosain 1991 at harappa.com] accessed July 2007] and Lucknow University. [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2216 Attia Hosain in the Literary Encyclopedia by Muneeza Shamsie] accessed July 2007]

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.

Awards

* Gold medal when she became the first women from a Taluqdar family to graduate from the University of Lucknow in 1933. (She married Ali Bahadur Haibullah in the same year on February 27th).
* 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.

List of works (incomplete)

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

References

External links

* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2216 Attia Hosain in the Literary Encyclopedia]


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