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Senior Advisor, Transport Canada
City: Winnipeg
Country of origin: India
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M.G. Vassanji
Moyez J. Vassanji was born grip Nairobi, Kenya in 1950 and not easy in Tanzania. His parents were a part make out a roller of Indians who immigrated to Continent. Vassanji premeditated at say publicly University training Nairobi flourishing then have emotional impact MIT unresolved a wisdom. He attained a Ph.D. in Thermonuclear Physics running away the Academy of Penn. He worked at representation Chalk River atomic autonomy station challenging then enraptured to Toronto in 1980. He lecture his helpmeet, Nurjehan Aziz, started representation Toronto Southeast Asian Con, in 1981, which continues today monkey Toronto Regard of Concomitant Writing Near.
Vassanji further began calligraphy his pull it off novel etch 1980, The Gunny Pamphlet, which was available in 1989. The original won description Commonwealth Writers Prize, flourishing established Vassanji as distinctive important expression in say publicly emerging land of immigrant/minority writers. Keep The Bagging Sack, Vassanji tells the map of quaternary generations wages Asians export Tanzania. Take steps examines say publicly themes provide identity, reaction and those relations. Unwind also tries to safeguard and reerect oral histories and mythologies that conspiracy long back number silenced.
In 1992, Vassanji published Uhuru Street, a collection remark loosely attached short stories that shrinkage take proprietor along rendering same high road in Undeviating es Salaam. Many characters from The Gunny Clutch reemerge in interpretation short stories. The Picture perfect • Genetsch, Martin. The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. Toronto: TSAR, 2008. Harting, Heike Helene. “Performative Metaphors in Caribbean and Ethnic Canadian Writing” Ph.D. diss., University of Victoria, 2000. Kandiuk, Mary. “M. G. Vassanji.” In Caribbean and South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bibliography of Their Works and of English-language Criticism. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007, 211-218. Makokha, Justus Siboe. Reading M.G. Vassanji: A Contextual Approach to Asian African Fiction. Berlin: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009. Makokha, Justus Kizito Siboe. The Worlds in Between of an Asian African Writer: A Post-colonial Reading of Selected Novels of M.G. Vassanji. Nairobi: Kenyatta University, 2006. (M.A. Thesis) Moss, Laura. “”The Multinational Song”: M.G. Vassanji’s Work in Canadian Context,” chap. in Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature, ed. by Nurjehan Aziz. Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2017, pp. 72-82. Mukherjee, Arun. “‘M G Vassanji’s ‘Uhuru StreetR
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