# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/attia-hosain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:22:37.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/attia-hosain"
name: "Attia Hosain"
slug: "attia-hosain"
description: "Attia Hosain was an Indian-born British novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu. She wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) and a collection of short stories titled Phoenix Fled.\nHer 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."
tagline: "Indian writer who moved to the UK in the 1940 and died in 1998."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Attia_Hosain_in_the_1930s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-10-20"
deathDate: "1998-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.06
  momentum:             1.8125
  historical:           7.553745333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ਅੱਤੀਆ ਹੁਸੈਨ"
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    title: "عطیہ حسین"
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    title: "عطیہ حسین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump