Selvadurai Shyam

Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada at the age of nineteen. He has studied creative writing and journalism, and has a BFA from York University. Selvadurai has written for television and his fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to acclaim in 1994. It won the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award and, in the US, the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men’s Fiction. and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Funny Boy was also published in the US, UK, India and numerous countries in Europe.