An Interview with M G Vassanji
An Interview with M G Vassanji
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MG 瓦桑吉专访
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10.1080/02690055.2011.557481
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2011
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MG Vassanji出生于肯尼亚，在坦桑尼亚长大。他曾就读于麻省理工学院（MIT）和宾夕法尼亚大学（University of Pennsylvania），专攻核物理。1978年，他作为博士后来到加拿大。从1980年到1989年，他是多伦多大学的研究助理。在此期间，他对中世纪印度文学和历史产生了浓厚的兴趣，与人共同创办并编辑了一本文学杂志（《多伦多南亚评论》，后来更名为《多伦多当代海外写作评论》），并开始写小说。1989年，随着他的第一部小说《麻袋》的出版，他被邀请在爱荷华大学的国际写作项目中度过一个季节。瓦桑吉已经出版了六部小说，两部短篇小说集，一本关于他在印度旅行的回忆录和一本关于莫迪凯·里奇勒的传记。他的作品已在多个国家以多种语言出版。他曾凭借《秘密之书》和《维克拉姆·拉尔的中间世界》获得加拿大最佳小说作品吉勒奖，凭借《麻袋》获得英联邦地区奖（非洲），并凭借回忆录《一个内在的地方：重新发现印度》获得总督奖。此外，他的小说《刺客之歌》还入围了加拿大的吉勒奖、罗杰斯奖和总督奖，以及印度的填字游戏奖。他的最新著作《贱民》将于2011年在加拿大出版。
MG Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialised in nuclear physics, before moving to Canada as a postdoctoral fellow in 1978. From 1980 to 1989 he was a research associate at the University of Toronto. During this period he developed a keen interest in medieval Indian literature and history, co-founded and edited a literary magazine (The Toronto South Asian Review, later renamed The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad), and began writing fiction. In 1989, with the publication of his first novel, The Gunny Sack, he was invited to spend a season at the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa. MG Vassanji has published six novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir of his travels in India and a biography of Mordecai Richler. His work has appeared in various countries and several languages. He has won the Giller Prize for best work of fiction in Canada for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, the Commonwealth Regional Prize (Africa) for The Gunny Sack and the Governor-General’s Prize for his memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India. In addition, his novel The Assassin’s Song was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Rogers Prize and the Governor-General’s Prize in Canada, as well as the Crossword Prize in India. His most recent book, The Outcaste, will be published in Canada in 2011.