Shyam Selvadurai redefined Sri Lankan literature by breaking silences around war, queerness, and belonging. His acclaimed novels, Funny Boy, Mansions of the Moon, Cinnamon Gardens and The Hungry Ghosts, question who gets to imagine “paradise” and whose stories shape a nation’s identity. In this session, Selvadurai explores how his fiction reclaims Sri Lanka’s fractured histories and reimagines its future through empathy, courage, and storytelling.