Shyam Selvadurai



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Shyam Selvadurai

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born
March 12, 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

genre
Gay & Lesbian, Politics, Literature & Fiction


About this author

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.

Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father--members of conflicting ethnic groups whose troubles form a major theme in his work. Ethnic riots in 1983 drove the family to emigrate to Canada when Selvadurai was nineteen. He studied creative and professional writing as part of a Bachelor of Fine Arts program at York University.

Selvadurai recounted an account of the discomfort he and his partner experienced during a period spent in Sri Lanka in 1997 in his essay "Coming Out" in Time Asia's...more


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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,577 ratings · 184 reviews · 5 distinct works
Funny Boy
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
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Cinnamon Gardens: A Novel
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 337 ratings — 11 editions
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 68 ratings — 2 editions
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The Hungry Ghosts
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