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Shyam Selvadurai
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1965
Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. He is most noted for his 1994 novel Funny Boy, which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.
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About Shyam Selvadurai
Birth
1965
First book
1994
Years writing
32
Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. He is most noted for his 1994 novel Funny Boy, which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.
Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo in 1965 and is a prominent Canadian author of Sri Lankan descent.
His most acclaimed work, Funny Boy, sensitively explores identity and social conditions in Sri Lanka.
Throughout his career, he has published ten works that navigate between fiction and social reality.
His writing is noted for courageously addressing the experiences of gay men in complex cultural contexts.
In addition to his work in adult fiction, he has also ventured into children's literature.
