Meera Syal

Meera Syal MBE (born June 27 1963) is a British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She was born in Wolverhampton. She won the National Student Drama Award for writing One of Us while at university in Manchester, the Betty Trask Award for her first book Anita and Me and won the Media Personality of the Year award at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media awards in 2000. She was awarded the MBE in 1997. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. As a journalist she writes occasionally for The Guardian.

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Television (wrote)

Academic reception

The book Anita and Me has found its way onto school and university English syllabuses both in Britain and abroad. Scholarly literature includes:
  • Roco G. Davis, "India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal's Anita and Me", in Fernando Galvn & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed.), On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Universidad de Alcal 1999, 139-46.
  • Graeme Dunphy, "Meena's Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal", in Neophilologus 88, 2004, 637-59.
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