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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)
	1991 No New Land (novel)
	1992 Uhuru Street (short stories)
	1994 The Book of Secrets (novel)
	1999 Amriika (novel)
	2003 The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (novel)
	2005 When She Was Queen (short stories)
	2007 The Assassin's Song (novel)
	2008 A Place Within (non-fiction)
	2009 Mordecai Richler (non-fiction)
	2012 The Magic of Saida
	2014 And Home Was Kariakoo
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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

Links

• Official site

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Added 24 May 2006.
Updated 07 May 2014.