He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialised in nuclear physics, before moving to Canada as a postdoctoral fellow in 1978.įrom 1980 to 1989 Vassanji was a research associate at the University of Toronto. Vassanji was born in Kenya to Indian immigrants and raised in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Vassanji's writings, which have received considerable critical acclaim, often focus on issues of colonial history, migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity. As of 2020, he has published nine novels, as well as two short-fiction collections and two nonfiction books. Vassanji's work has been translated into several languages. Vassanji CM (born in Kenya) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. Novels, short stories, memoir, and a biography
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