Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 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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