Event Speaker: M G Vassanji

M G Vassanji is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, a travel memoir about India, a memoir of East Africa, and a biography of Mordecai Richler. He is twice winner of the Giller Prize (1994, 2003); the Governor General’s Prize (2009) for nonfiction; the Harbourfront Festival Prize; the Commonwealth First Book Prize (Africa, 1990); and the Molson Prize. “Nostalgia”, his dystopian novel, was a finalist for CBC’s Canada Reads. M G Vassanji was born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He lives in Toronto, and visits East Africa and India often.