Funny Boy (novel)

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Funny Boy

First edition
Author	Shyam Selvadurai
Language	English
Subject	Sexuality, diaspora, 1983 Colombo Riots
Genre	Historical fiction
Publisher	McClelland & Stewart
Publication date	1994
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Paperback
Pages	328
ISBN	0-7710-7951-6
OCLC	412624251

Funny Boy is a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. First published by McClelland and Stewart in September 1994, the novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award.^[1]

Set in Sri Lanka where Selvadurai grew up, Funny Boy is constructed in the form of six poignant stories about a boy coming to age within a wealthy Tamil family in Colombo. Between the ages of seven and fourteen, he explores his sexual identity, and encounters the Sinhala-Tamil tensions leading up to the 1983 riots.