₢Anita and Me is Meera Syal's debut novel, and was first published in 1996. Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal,, Wolverhampton, England) is a British Comedian, Writer, Playwright A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view It is a semi-autobiographical novel which has won the Betty Trask Award. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" The Betty Trask Award for a first novel given by the Society of Authors to citizens of the Commonwealth under the age of 35
The story revolves around Meena an Indian Punjabi girl with a funny hair-cut(the "me" of the title)and her relationship with the white Anita as they grow up in the fictional Midlands village of Tollington in the 1970s. Punjabi may refer to The Punjabi language of Pakistan and India Punjabi grammar List of Punjabi This article is mainly about the English Midlands For other uses see Midlands (disambiguation. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970.
It was a GCSE English literature set text for the examination years 2004 and 2005. The General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE) is the name of an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject generally taken in a number of subjects by The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from
Film
It was made into a film of the same name in 2002, in which Meera Syal appears as Meena's Auntie Shaila. Anita and Me was a successful British comedy/drama film released in 2002 based on the book Anita and Me by Meera Syal. Anita and Me was a successful British comedy/drama film released in 2002 based on the book Anita and Me by Meera Syal. Syal also wrote the screenplay for the film. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television The film starred Chandeep Uppal and Anna Brewster. Chandeep Uppal (born 19th July 1988 in Birmingham, England) is a British actress best known for her critically acclaimed starring role as Meena Kumar in Anna Brewster (born 1986 is a British actress who stars in the E4 series Nearly Famous.
Secondary literature
- Rocío G. Davis, "India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal's Anita and Me", in Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed. ), On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Universidad de Alcalá 1999, 139-46.
- Graeme Dunphy, "Meena's Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal", in Neophilologus 88, 2004, 637-59. Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American Author known for her Pulitzer Prize -winning 1960 novel To Kill
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