M. G. Vassanji

Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji, born in 1950 in Nairobi and raised in Dar es Salaam, belongs to the Ismaili Indian community of East Africa. He left to study physics at MIT, earned a doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a researcher and lecturer in physics at the University of Toronto from 1980 to 1989, founded a journal devoted to South Asian writing, then left science to write. In 2003, he became the first writer to win the Giller Prize twice.

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• NovelThe Book of SecretsM. G. Vassanji · 1994Literature