Shyam Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo Sri Lanka. Funny Boy his first novel was published in 1994 and won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and The Lambda Literary Award in the U.S. He is the author of Cinnamon Gardens and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea and the editor of an anthology, Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. His books have been published in the U.S, U.K and India, and published in translation in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, and Israel. He divides his time between Toronto, Canada, and Sri Lanka. His new novel, The Hungry Ghosts, will be published by Doubleday in Spring 2012.
