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    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...
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  • Funny Boy (novel) (category Novels by Shyam Selvadurai)
    Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel...
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  • Mansions of the Moon (category Novels by Shyam Selvadurai)
    written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Penguin Random House Canada. Set in 6th century B.C. India, "Mansions of the Moon" by Shyam Selvadurai tells the...
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  • Boy is a 2020 drama film, directed by Deepa Mehta. An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel of the same name, the film centres on the coming of age...
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  • The Hungry Ghosts (novel) (category Novels by Shyam Selvadurai)
    Ghosts is a 2013 novel written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Doubleday Canada. "The Hungry Ghosts" by Shyam Selvadurai is set between Toronto, Ontario...
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  • Swimming in the Monsoon Sea is a coming-of-age novel written by Shyam Selvadurai set in Sri Lanka in 1980, during the monsoon season. Fourteen-year-old...
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    novelist Michael Ondaatje at the International Achievement Summit. Selvadurai, Shyam (10 August 2016), "New spider species named for Michael Ondaatje"...
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    Rohinton Mistry (1992) John Steffler (1993) Deborah Joy Corey (1994) Shyam Selvadurai (1995) Keath Fraser (1996) Anne Michaels (1997) Margaret Gibson (1998)...
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  • Rohinton Mistry (1992) John Steffler (1993) Deborah Joy Corey (1994) Shyam Selvadurai (1995) Keath Fraser (1996) Anne Michaels (1997) Margaret Gibson (1998)...
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  • Cinnamon Gardens (novel) (category Novels by Shyam Selvadurai)
    Cinnamon Gardens is a 1998 novel written by Shyam Selvadurai. The story is set in the 1920s in Cinnamon Gardens, a wealthy suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka...
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    Mehta won the Best Director award for Funny Boy. She and cowriter Shyam Selvadurai also won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In November 2021, Variety...
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    literature, with notable authors including Alex Sánchez, Stephen Chbosky, Shyam Selvadurai, Perry Moore, Adam Silvera, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, and David Levithan...
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  • Rohinton Mistry (1992) John Steffler (1993) Deborah Joy Corey (1994) Shyam Selvadurai (1995) Keath Fraser (1996) Anne Michaels (1997) Margaret Gibson (1998)...
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    Rohinton Mistry (1992) John Steffler (1993) Deborah Joy Corey (1994) Shyam Selvadurai (1995) Keath Fraser (1996) Anne Michaels (1997) Margaret Gibson (1998)...
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    Rohinton Mistry (1992) John Steffler (1993) Deborah Joy Corey (1994) Shyam Selvadurai (1995) Keath Fraser (1996) Anne Michaels (1997) Margaret Gibson (1998)...
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  • Chhota Khayal, monthly calendar of Khush, Toronto Books / Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boys and Funny Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet by...
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  • director; founded the Stable Theatre Kandappu Murugesu, Sri Lankan poet Shyam Selvadurai, Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist; half Tamil Sharon Bala, Canadian writer...
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    College under graduation English department included Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai as part of syllabus under gay literature and marginalized studies....
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  • controller.controller; news anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake; anchor novelist Shyam Selvadurai; cricketers Sanjayan Thuraisingam, film Actor, producer and multiple...
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  • Christopher Ondaatje Nira Wickramasinghe Jayadeva Uyangoda Romesh Gunesekera Shyam Selvadurai S. J. Sindu Nayomi Munaweera Sunil Yapa Tissa Abeysekara Regi Siriwardena...
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    number of internationally renowned writers from Sri Lanka, including Shyam Selvadurai. Despite his family's relative privilege and urban base, his family...
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  • Emma Donoghue Hood Winner Andrew Holleran The Beauty of Men Finalist Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy Sarah Van Arsdale Toward Amnesia Terry Wolverton Bailey's...
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  • Boy (novel), a 1994 novel by Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy (film), a 2020 Canadian drama film adaptation of the Selvadurai novel directed by Deepa Mehta...
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  • has been made into a movie in the neighboring state of Karnataka. Shyam Selvadurai is a gay fiction author who lives in Canada. He is of Sri Lankan Tamil...
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  • Navagattegama (1940–2005) Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), The English Patient Shyam Selvadurai (born 1965) W. A. Silva (1890–1957) S. J. Sindu (born 1987) Ambalavaner...
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  • He lived in Cinnamon Gardens in Sri Lanka until his death in 2008. Shyam Selvadurai is currently a Canadian citizen who was born in Colombo to ethnic-Sinhalese...
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  • Burnard Casino and Other Stories Shortlist Eliza Clark What You Need Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy Steve Weiner The Museum of Love 1995 Mordecai Richler David...
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    original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2012-10-04. "Failed desires conjure Shyam Selvadurai's the Hungry Ghosts". 2013-05-22. Firth, Shirley. End of Life: A Hindu...
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    of prominent Canadians of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, such as author Shyam Selvadurai, and Indira Samarasekera, former president of the University of Alberta...
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  • Canadian cricketer Suresh Joachim - Multiple Guinness World Record Holder Shyam Selvadurai - author of Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens SJ Sindu - author of Marriage...
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