Attia Hosain

Attia Hosain was born on 20 October 1913 in Lucknow, into a prominent Muslim family, and was the first woman of her background to graduate from the University of Lucknow. Close to the Progressive Writers' Movement, she wrote for The Pioneer and The Statesman, then settled in England in 1947, where she worked for the BBC's Urdu service. She published a collection of short stories in 1953 and this novel in 1961, and died on 25 January 1998.

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• NovelSunlight on a Broken ColumnAttia Hosain · 1961Literature