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Shyam Selvadurai
Sri Lankan Canadian novelist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist.[1] He is most noted for his 1994 novel Funny Boy, which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award[2] and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.[3]
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Born | (1965-02-12) February 12, 1965 (age 59) Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Sri Lankan-Canadian |
Period | 1990s-present |
Notable works | Funny Boy, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea |
Spouse | Andrew Champion |
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