Anita and Me is Meera Syal's debut novel, and was first published in 1996. It is a semi-autobiographical novel which has won the Betty Trask Award. Meera Syal Meera Syal MBE (born June 27, 1961 in Essington, near Wolverhampton) is an English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ...

The story revolves around Meena (the "me" of the title) and her relationship with Anita as they grow up in the fictional village of Tollington in the 1970s. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

It is set as a GCSE English literature set text for the examination year 2005, as it was for the 2004 year. For other meanings of GCSE, see GCSE (disambiguation). ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, or literature composed in English by writers who are not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

It was made into a film of the same name in 2002, in which Meera Syal appears as Meena's Auntie Shaila. Syal also wrote the screenplay for the film. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ...

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.

Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American novelist, author of the classic 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. ...

External links

• Anita and Me at the Internet Movie Database