Shyam Selvadurai(هل هذا ملفك؟)

Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1965 and moved to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. He is the acclaimed author of Funny Boy, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Cinnamon Gardens and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea. The Hungry Ghosts (Telegram) was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He lives in Toronto.