![]() Vassanji’s non-fiction work includes a biography of novelist Mordecai Richler, and the editing of A Meeting of Stream: South Asian Canadian Literature, a volume of articles and essays that grew out of the proceedings of the Conference on South Asian Canadian Literature on October 1-3, 1983, organized by the Toronto South Asian review. Vassanji was the winner of the 2015 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for contribution to the arts in Canada. In February, 2005, Vassanji was named a Member of the Order of Canada for his contribution to arts/writing. Vassanji and his family reside in Toronto. TSAR Publications began publishing monographs in 1985 and transitioned in 2015 to Mawenzi House Publishers. Renamed and with a broader scope as The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad, the magazine gave voice to immigrant Canadians. Vassanji is the founding editor of the literary magazine The Toronto South Asian Review. He earned a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in nuclear physics from the University of Pennsylvania before coming to Canada in 1978. ![]() ![]() Vassanji was born in Nairobi, Kenya but raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ![]()
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