Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.
In 2014, he was presented the Bonham Centre Award from The Mark S.
In 2013 Selvadurai's Funny Boy was included in the syllabus under marginalized study and gay literature of the under graduate English Department of The American College in Madurai.
In 2013, he released a fourth novel, The Hungry Ghosts. He was a contributor to TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 1. 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 published Funny Boy in 1994, and followed up in 1998 with the novel Cinnamon Gardens. 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 is most noted for his 1994 novel Funny Boy, which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Shyam Selvadurai (born 12 February 1965) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. Funny Boy, Cinnamon Gardens, The Hungry Ghosts
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