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Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) 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.
Apr 2, 2013 · Award-winning writer Shyam Selvadurai brings to life 6th century B.C. India in all its fascinating detail, depicting as well the great intellectual and spiritual ferment of the time that changed human thought, and whose ideas are still relevant today.
Apr 2, 2013 · Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1965. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. He has studied creative writing and theatre and has a BFA from York University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
Shyam Selvadurai pieces together the best of Sri Lankan poetry and fiction in this anthology. From the Sinhala and Tamil writers of the 1950s to diasporic writers of today, from stories of love and longing to those of brutality and death, this masterfully constructed anthology will give you a rich sense Sri Lanka’s history, its people and the ...
Apr 2, 2012 · Shyam Selvadurai, novelist (born at Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1965). Born in Sri Lanka, Shyam Selvadurai is of mixed Tamil and Sinhala heritage. The possibilities and impossibilities of similar "mixings" dominate his fiction.
Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998). He currently lives in Toronto with his partner Andrew Champion.
Jan 7, 2022 · Internationally acclaimed writer Shyam Selvadurai leads a busy life in Toronto. In addition to teaching, mentoring students, and working on his own writing, he serves as Associate Director, Narrative, at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity which is how I first met him.
Dec 6, 2020 · The Sri Lankan-Canadian Selvadurai is the award-winning author of Funny Boy, the dramatic 1994 novel set in the 1980s that has been adapted to screen by Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta.
Shyam Selvadurai – “Writing is a strange process” - Hindustan Times. By Chintan Girish Modi. Apr 05, 2024 09:18 PM IST. At the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Sri Lankan-Canadian...
Aug 2, 2016 · Sri Lanka-born Canadian novelist Shyam Selvadurai on the issues of sexual identity and the role of creative writing in healing the wounds of war. By Prathap Nair. 6 min read.
