Shyam Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai (born February 12, 1965 in Colombo , Ceylon ) is a Sri Lankan- Canadian author.
He is of Tamil- Singhalese descent and a Christian. In 1984 he moved to Canada with his family. Selvadurai received a BFA from York University and now lives in Toronto .
With his novel Funny Boy published in 1994 Selvadurai won the Books in Canada First Novel Award . For the novel Swimming in the Monsoon Sea , published in 2005, he received the Lambda Literary Award in the literature for children and adolescents category .
Works
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Funny boy . McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1994
- Übers. Christiane Mothes: Funny Boy. Novel. Bollmann, Mannheim 1996
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Cinnamon Gardens , Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998
- Translated by Matthias Müller: The cinnamon gardens. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2000
- Swimming in the Monsoon Sea , 2005
Honors and prizes
- for Funny Boy
- Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Male Novel , 1996
- Amazon.ca First Novel Award , 1994
- for Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
- Lambda Literary Award in the Literature for Children and Young People category , 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shyam Selvadurai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sri Lankan Canadian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colombo , Ceylon |