![]() Funny Boy won both the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and it is also slotted for a film adaptation by the decorated Indian-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. ![]() ![]() After moving to Canada, Selvadurai studied theater at York University and wrote a handful of television plays before finding breakout success in 1994 with Funny Boy, which remains his best-known work. ![]() However, the character of Arjie is in no further sense based on Selvadurai's family or life-indeed, whereas Arjie is Tamil, Selvadurai had a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father. Like his protagonist Arjie, Shyam Selvadurai also grew up gay in Sri Lanka during the 1970s before fleeing at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1983. ![]()
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