This session features the internationally acclaimed novelist M. G. Vassanji, author of nine novels, two 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) for best work of fiction in Canada and the Governor General's Prize (2009) for best work of nonfiction. Discussion includes his career as a writer, the experience of our forefathers and their families upon migrating from the Indian sub-continent to East Africa, their entrepreneurialism and the challenges they faced.
