Shyam Selvadurai

Neluka Silva (University of Colombo)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 12 Apr 1965
Activity 1985-ongoing

Places

Born in Sri Lanka
Active in Canada; Sri Lanka

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Sri Lanka and left the country at the age of 19 for Toronto, Canada. His first novel Funny Boy was published in 1994 and his second novel, Cinnamon Gardens was published by Penguin in 1998.

Funny Boy won the WH Smith/Books in Canada Novel Award and in the US the Lambda Literary award for Best Gay Men's Fiction. It was also named as a notable book by the American Literary Association. It was published in the US, UK, India and numerous countries in Europe.

Please see our entry on Funny Boy.

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Citation: Silva, Neluka. "Shyam Selvadurai". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 July 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4008, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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