Moyez G. Vassanji Quotes

Canada, Editor
May 30, 1950

Moyez G. Vassanji, is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. Vassanji's work is known throughout North America, and in Africa, and South Asia, and has been translated into several languages. As of 2016, he has published eight novels, as well as a number of short fiction and nonfiction collections. Vassanji's writings, which have received considerable critical acclaim, often focus on issues of migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity.

Also known as Novelist

To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.

Moyez G. Vassanji
- Thinking
- Done
- Literature
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.

Moyez G. Vassanji
- Wise
- Magic
- Hands

No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.

Moyez G. Vassanji
Destination Kampala! Africa’s postcolonial renaissance.” There would have been few other places in the world where there was such an excitement about new literature, new ideas, and new politics. The inspiration arrived at this conference for a new publishing imprint of literary titles called the African Writers Series, which was soon launched by Heinemann in the U.K., with Achebe as the series editor. The excitement reached as far as my high school in Dar, where literary competitions were held, new drama was produced, and a parade of literary luminaries passed through, including Chinua Achebe.

Moyez G. Vassanji
We were a country of sages. They were all over the place, sometimes clogging the streets and roadways.

Moyez G. Vassanji
- Country
- Sages
Marge Thompson with Karsan Dargawalla: I recall repeating the names, getting a thrill from their unlikely, gobbledygook togetherness.

Moyez G. Vassanji
- Assassin's Song