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Fall Writer-in-Residence Reading: Shyam Selvadurai

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Date: Wednesday September 13, 2023
Time: 1:30pm
Location: McLaughlin College, 014

Shyam will read from his new novel, Mansions of the Moon, and will also be available for questions from the audience about his work and his residency.

Shyam Selvadurai


Shyam Selvadurai is the author of Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, a novel for young adults, and The Hungry Ghosts. His work has won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General’s Award, and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award. He is also the editor of Story-Wallah: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction,and a comprehensive anthology of Sri Lankan literature, Many Roads Through Paradise. Shyam’s latest book, Mansion of the Moon, is a historical novel about the Buddha’s wife, Yasodhara.

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