1. Shyam Selvadurai was born on 12 February 1965 and is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist.
10 Facts About Shyam Selvadurai
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Shyam Selvadurai 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.
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Shyam Selvadurai attained a BFA at York University for Theatre in 1989, then achieved an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 2010.
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Shyam Selvadurai recounted an account of the discomfort he and his partner experienced during a period spent in Sri Lanka in 1997 in his essay "Coming Out" in Time Asia's special issue on the Asian diaspora in 2003.
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Shyam Selvadurai published Funny Boy in 1994, and followed up in 1998 with the novel Cinnamon Gardens.
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In 2004, Shyam Selvadurai edited a collection of short stories: Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, which includes works by Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, and Hanif Kureishi, among others.
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Shyam Selvadurai published a young adult novel, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, in 2005.
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Shyam Selvadurai was a contributor to TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 1.
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At the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, Mehta and Shyam Selvadurai won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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In 2016, a species of spider was named after Selvadurai called Brignolia Shyami, a small goblin spider which is a pale yellow colour and between 1.4mm and 1.5mm in length.