Shyam Selvadurai will be the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Green College from September to December of 2012. Selvadurai is the author of Funny Boy, a coming of age story about a boy within a wealthy Tamil family and Cinnamon Gardens, a novel set among the upper classes in the gracious, repressive and complex world of 1920s Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
He will give a reading from both books in early September and host a free, public lecture series of local and international writers. While at UBC, Selvadurai will be working on a new fantasy trilogy and providing creative writing consultations to graduate students by appointment.
To learn more, visit www.greencollege.ubc.ca/index/spotlight366.php
