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Moyez Vassanji was born in 1950 in Nairobi, Kenya and grew up in Tanzania. He studied at the University of Nairobi before winning a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at the University of Pennsylvania. Vassanji came to Canada in 1978 to work at Chalk River Laboratories, then moved to Toronto in 1980 where he was a research associate and lecturer at the University of Toronto. He has been a full-time writer since 1989.

Books by M.G. Vassanji

	1989 The Gunny Sack (novel)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1991 No New Land (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1992 Uhuru Street (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1994 The Book of Secrets (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1999 Amriika (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2003 The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2005 When She Was Queen (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2007 The Assassin's Song (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2008 A Place Within (non-fiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2009 Mordecai Richler (non-fiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Giller Prize
  • 1994 – The Book of Secrets – Winner
  • 2003 – The In-Between World of Vikram Lall – Winner
  • 2007 – The Assassin's Song – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 2007 – The Assassin's Song – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Non-fiction
  • 2009 – A Place Within: Rediscovering India – Winner

• Order of Canada
  • 2004 – Member

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2007 – The Assassin's Song – Shortlisted

Added 24 May 2006.
Updated 17 November 2009.