Title	Reading of "Funny Boy" & "Cinnamon Gardens"
Creator	Selvadurai, Shyam
Contributor	Green College (University of British Columbia); Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued	2012-09-10
Description	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.
Subject	Literature
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2012-09-13
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
DOI	10.14288/1.0075700
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43203
Affiliation	Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Other UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Other
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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