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Canadian author (born 1950)
Moyez G. VassanjiCM (born 30 May 1950 in Kenya) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji.[1][2] Vassanji's work has been translated into several languages.
As of 2020, he has published nine novels, as well as two short-fiction collections and two nonfiction books.
Vassanji moved to Toronto in to work at the University of Toronto as a research associate and lecturer, and soon began writing fiction.
Vassanji's writings often focus on issues of colonial history, migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity.[3][4]
Early life and education
M. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya to Indian immigrants and raised in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).[5] 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.[citation needed]
Career
From 1980 to 1989 Vassanji was a research associate at the University of Toronto.
During this period he developed a