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Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada in 1984 where he earned a B.F.A. from York University in 1989. Selvadurai lives in Toronto.

Books by Shyam Selvadurai

	1994 Funny Boy (novel)
	1998 Cinnamon Gardens (novel)
	2005 Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (young adult)
	2013 The Hungry Ghosts (novel)
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Awards

• Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 1994 – Funny Boy – Winner

• Giller Prize
  • 1994 – Funny Boy – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Children's Literature
  • 2005 – Swimming in the Monsoon Sea – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 2013 – The Hungry Ghosts – Shortlisted

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Added 15 May 2006.
Updated 26 February 2015.