Biographies of Shyam Selvadurai

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.

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. Background 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 attained...

Shyam Selvadurai est un écrivain srilankais installé au Canada, né en 1965 à Colombo. Biographie Il émigre au Canada avec sa famille à la suite de la guerre civile au Sri Lanka en 1983. Licencié en lettres à l'Université York de Toronto, il écrit pour la télévision et publie des nouvelles pour différentes revues avant de devenir romancier à part entière avec Drôle de garçon (Funny Boy) paru en 1994, pour lequel il reçoit le Prix du Premier roman canadien et un prix Lambda Literary. Selvadurai...