Meera Syal

Sutida Wimuttikosol (King's College London)

Ed. by Jenni Ramone, The Nottingham Trent University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.5: South Asian Diasporic Literature and Culture, 1800-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born 27 Jun 1961
Activity 1983-ongoing

Places

Active in United Kingdom

Cultural Identities

British Asian

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Theatre actor

Resources

Meera Syal, one of the best-known Asians in Britain (Ranasinha, 2007, 247), had a pivotal role in the greater visibility of British Asian and Indian culture in the British mainstream media during the 1990s. She wrote the screenplay for Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha, 1993), the first British film written and directed by a British Asian woman. Goodness Gracious Me (1996-2001), the BBC sketch show she co-created and in which she was a cast member, introduced British Asian comedy to UK radio and television audiences. Her debut novel, Anita and Me (1996), was adapted into a film (Metin Hüseyin, 2002) and a stage play (Roxana Silbert, 2015 and 2017), and has been included in the UK’s GCSE …

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Citation: Wimuttikosol, Sutida. "Meera Syal". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 November 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13974, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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