Galle Literary Festival

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Shyam Selvadurai

Author

Shyam Selvadurai is the writer of many novels which have been published internationally and translated into nine languages. His Funny Boy was made into a film, for which Shyam won the New York Cinema Independent Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Shyam’s new novel is Mansion of the Moon, a historical novel about the Buddha’s wife, published by Knopf and Penguin India.

 

Top Titles

  • Funny Boy (1994)
  • The Hungry Ghosts (2013)
  • Mansions of the Moon (2022)

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