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In Memoriam: Reading Bapsi in her own city

Dawn 27 Dec 2024
I had not, I daresay, read a Pakistani woman’s work before —Kamila Shamsie’s first novel, In the City by the Sea, came out in 1998 and I didn’t discover Attia Hosain until much later in life ... The thrill of a novel being so close to home was electric ... .
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Review: At Home in India by Qurratulain Hyder

Hindustan Times 26 Jul 2024
... Hosain, the London-based writer whose 1961 semi-autobiographical novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column, was recently featured on a prestigious list of books by Commonwealth writers of the last 70 years.
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‘People still do not want women to succeed or be equal. While that is true, you need Virago’: 50 years of the warrior publisher

The Observer 28 Jun 2023
“From Elizabeth Taylor to Attia Hosain, the unifying feature is the centrality of women’s experience, which even today is always in danger of being belittled, downgraded, regarded as ‘domestic’ and therefore less important,” she adds ... Read more ... .
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Kamila Shamsie: ‘There’s nothing more comforting than Seinfeld scripts’

The Observer 26 May 2023
An illustrated version of Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ... Gone With the Wind ... Bapsi Sidhwa ... Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain. When I first read it, as a teenager, I was distracted by it real-life resonances (Attia was my great-aunt) ... .
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Review: Ways of Being: Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women edited by Sabyn Javeri

Hindustan Times 13 May 2023
Among them was Attia Hosain’s 1961 autobiographical Partition novel Sunlight on a Broken Column. Hosain was Muneeza’s aunt and when she shared this with her English teacher in Sussex, “She smirked, ...
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Why did the short story lose its popularity?

Khaleejtimes 09 Mar 2023
In modern literature, the short story occupies a very interesting place ... When done well, a short story serves as a little nugget of delight or surprise and delivers the perfect escape from the mundane ... 5.Attia Hosain, Pheonix Fled.
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INTERVIEW: ‘BELIEVE THAT YOUR WRITING LIFE IS LONG.’ — KAMILA SHAMSIE

Dawn 02 Oct 2022
Photo credit. Alex von Tunzelmann ... With your eighth novel now out, it’s been a grand career ... The most important advice I ever received was from my mother’s chaachi [paternal aunt by marriage], the novelist Attia Hosain, when I was 11 years old ... .
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Kamila Shamsie: "No one is always the same – human nature is not made to be static"

Harpers Bazaar 27 Sep 2022
I’ve told her I'm not a fan of George Michael ... She is the daughter of journalist and editor Muneeza Shamsie, the granddaughter of memoirist Jahanara Habibullah and the great-niece of the writer Attia Hosain ... Best of Friends. £14.99. SHOP NOW.
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