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M. G. Vassanji was born on 30 May, 1950 in Nairobi, Kenya, is a novelist and editor, academic. Discover M. G. Vassanji's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Moyez G. Vassanji
Occupation novelist and editor, academic
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 30 May, 1950
Birthday 30 May
Birthplace Kenya
Nationality Canada

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Timeline

2016

He is a member of the Order of Canada and has been awarded several honorary doctorates. In 2016, he received the Molson Prize.

2012

His novel The Magic of Saida, set in Tanzania, was published in Canada in 2012, and in 2014 he published his memoirs, Home Was Kariakoo, based on his childhood in East Africa. and in 2016 he published another novel, Nostalgia.. In 2019, his ninth novel A Delhi Obsession was published to wide acclaim.

2007

Vassanji's works have been extensively reviewed by literary critics and analyzed for their sociological context. The focus of his writing is the situation of East African Indians. As a secondary theme, members of this community (like himself) later undergo a second migration to Europe, Canada, or the United States. Vassanji examines how the lives of his characters are affected by these migrations. Vassanji looks at the relations between the Indian community, the native Africans and the colonial administration. Though few of his characters ever return to India, the country's presence looms throughout his work; his 2007 novel The Assassins Song, however, is set almost entirely in India, where it was received as an Indian novel.

2006

In 2006, When She Was Queen was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. The Assassin's Song, released in 2007, was short-listed for the 2007 Giller Prize, the Rogers Prize, and the Governor General's Prize in Canada, as well as the Crossword Prize in India. In 2009 his travel memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India, won the Governor-General's Prize for nonfiction. He has also been awarded the Commonwealth Regional Prize (Africa).

2003

He again won the Giller Prize in 2003 for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, the first writer to win this prize twice. In 2005, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

1996

In 1996 he was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, India.

1994

Vassanji won the inaugural Giller Prize in 1994 for The Book of Secrets. That year, he won the Harbourfront Festival Prize in recognition of his "achievement in and contribution to the world of letters." Hee was also one of twelve Canadians chosen for Maclean's Magazine' s Honour Roll.

1989

In 1989, after the publication of his first novel, The Gunny Sack, Vassanji was invited to spend a season at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. The Gunny Sack won a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1990.

1980

From 1980 to 1989 Vassanji was a research associate at the University of Toronto. During this period he developed an interest in medieval Indian literature and history, co-founded and edited a literary magazine (The Toronto South Asian Review, later renamed The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad), and began writing fiction. Between 1989 and 2012, Vassanji published six novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir of his travels in India, and a biography of Mordecai Richler.

1978

M. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialised in nuclear physics, before moving to Canada as a postdoctoral fellow in 1978.

1950

Moyez G. Vassanji, CM (born 30 May 1950) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. Vassanji's work is known throughout North America, and in Africa, and South Asia, and has been translated into several languages. As of 2019, he has published nine novels, as well as a two collection of short fiction and two nonfiction books. Vassanji's writings, which have received considerable critical acclaim, often focus on issues of migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity.