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<div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">Please join us for the next event in the St. Jerome's University's 2014-15 Reading Series, Writing the Self/The Self Writing.</span>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><font size="6"><b>Shyam Selvadurai </b></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><font size="5">in St. Jerome's Siegfried Hall. </font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1965. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. He has studied creative writing and theatre and has a BFA from York University, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from
the University of British Columbia.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="http://shyamselvadurai.com/funny.htm" target="_blank">Funny Boy</a> </i>(1994), his first novel, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and in the US the Lambda Literary Award. It was also named a Notable Book by
the American Library Association, and was translated into 8 languages. His second novel<i>, <a href="http://shyamselvadurai.com/cinnamon.htm" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link">Cinnamon Gardens</a></i>, was shortlisted for Canada’s Trillium
Award, as well as the Aloa Literary Award in Denmark and the Premio Internazionale Riccardo Bacchelli in Italy. His novel for young adults, <i><a href="http://shyamselvadurai.com/swimming.htm" target="_blank">Swimming in the Monsoon Sea</a></i>, was shortlisted
for the Governor General’s Award and is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award in the US, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and Silver Winner in the Young Adult Category of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. Shyam is also the
editor of an anthology, <i><a href="http://shyamselvadurai.com/wallah.htm" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link">Story-Wallah: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction</a></i>, published in Canada and the US. His fourth novel, <i><a href="http://shyamselvadurai.com/ghosts.htm" target="_blank">The
Hungry Ghosts</a> </i>(2013)<i> </i>was shortlisted for Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Award for Fiction and longlisted for the DSC South Asia Literature Prize. His latest work is a comprehensive anthology of Sri Lankan literature, <i><a href="http://shyamselvadurai.com/roads.htm" target="_blank">Many
Roads Through Paradise</a></i>.</p>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">For more information about the Reading Series, please visit </span></font><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca" target="_blank"><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB">canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</span></font></a><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.</i></span></font><font size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i><br>
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="background-color: white;"><font size="2" color="#222222"><span lang="en-GB">Tristanne Connolly and Veronica Austen, series co-organizers</span></font></div>
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<div style="background-color: white;"><font size="2" color="#222222"><span lang="en-GB">St Jerome's University</span></font></div>
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