# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shyam-selvadurai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:08:01.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shyam-selvadurai"
name: "Shyam Selvadurai"
slug: "shyam-selvadurai"
description: "Shyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist. 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."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ShyamSelvadurai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.116903633491311
  historical:           7.494278666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shyamselvadurai.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "شيام سيلڤادوراى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "শ্যাম চেলভাডুৰাই"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shyam Selvadurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyam_Selvadurai"
    title: "Shyam Selvadurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyam_Selvadurai"
    title: "Shyam Selvadurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyam_Selvadurai"
    title: "Shyam Selvadurai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ෂියාම් සෙල්වදුරෙයි"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "சியாம் செல்வதுரை"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump