Shyam Selvadurai's Cinnamon Gardens is a family drama set in 1920's Ceylon which looks at themes such as feminism, homosexuality and infidelity through the value system of that time. He was a contributor to TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 1.ģ.5 Stars. Swimming won the Lambda Literary Award in the Children's and Youth Literature category in 2006. He published a young adult novel, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, in 2005. In 2004, 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. 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. He studied creative and professional writing as part of a Bachelor of Fine Arts program at York University. Ethnic riots in 1983 drove the family to emigrate to Canada when Selvadurai was nineteen. Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father-members of conflicting ethnic groups whose troubles form a major theme in his work. He currently lives in Toronto with his partner Andrew Champion. Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998).
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