Vassanji, M. G.
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Name (Latin)
Vassanji, M. G.
Other forms of name
Vassanji, Moyez G
Date of birth
1950-05-30
Place of birth
Kenya
Associated country
Africa
Other associated place
Tanzania
Field of activity
Nuclear physics
Associate group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Iowa
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation
Authors
Physicists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- A Meeting of streams, 1985:t.p. (M. G. Vassanji)
- NLC, 4/85(AACR 2: Vassanji, M. G.)
- The in-between world of Vikram Lall, 2004:CIP t.p. (M. G. Vassanji) pub. info. (b. in Kenya and raised in Tanzania; came to Canada in 1978; attended M.I.T.; former writer in residence at the University of Iowa)
- Translated people, translated texts, 2009:ECIP data view (Moyez G. Vassanji; author of several works of fiction, including: Amrika, and, No new land; was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1950 to Indian parents, and raised in Tanzania; when he was nineteen, he left the University of Nairobi on a scholarship to study physics at MIT in Massachusetts; PhD in nuclear physics, University of Pennsylvania; in 1978 he settled in Toronto, Canada where he still resides with his family)
- The Magic of Saida, 2013:ECIP t.p. (M. G. Vassanji) galley (debut fiction)
Wikipedia description:
Moyez G. Vassanji (born 30 May 1950 in Kenya) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. 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's writings often focus on issues of colonial history, migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity.
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