Shyam Selvadurai -- Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Shyam Selvadurai, the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence for 2012 was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, and has a BFA from York University in Toronto. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens, his second novel, was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Award and has been published in the US, UK, India, and Europe. Selvadurai is also the author of an acclaimed novel for young adults, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. Shyam will be reading from two of his novels and discussing his work as a diasporic writer.

[@triyasarkar5450]

The most funny thing is that I had no idea that a novel can also be consisted of several short stories! I have read funny boy as it is in my syllabus and really enjoyed the different spices of that literary piece!

[@onigirisamaa]

Love this novel!💖🇮🇳

[@TamirYardenne]

read the book, can't wait for the film. congrats!!!

[@dsfer7361]

one of the best things i have ever read..

[@hirunikadahanayake5286]

One of the best novels

[@iarchanapaulo]

'Funnu Boy'... One of the best book I've ever read so far❤️An amazing experience 💕I don't know how to put my feelings into words here... The whole book was a great experience 🔥🔥🔥

[@adyakanil2987]

🔥❣️❣️❣️🔥
Love the way he presented them ❤️

[@priyamondal1217]

I love to read the novel

[@andyandri559]

Thanks for the summary .

[@anshumanblack5589]

is it the full book summary ?

[@kay-wx2uw]

idk bout you but I believe in Shyam Selvadurai supremacy

[@sumana_kar]

❤

[@jubicjohn424]

Well he said in an interview that this book "is not autobiographical."

[@VikasSharma-lr5rm]

Jubi C John but it is said to be that it is autobiography

[@Travelandgadgetssrilanka]

Now film shoot in sri lanka