Shyam Selvadurai

Shyam Selvadurai was born on 12 February 1965 in Colombo, to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father. After the riots of 1983, his family emigrated to Canada, where he arrived at nineteen. A theatre graduate of York University, then a creative writing graduate of the University of British Columbia, he has published Cinnamon Gardens, a novel for teenagers, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, and The Hungry Ghosts, and has edited anthologies of South Asian literature and directed the Galle Literary Festival.

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• NovelFunny BoyShyam Selvadurai · 1994Literature