# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moyez-gulamhussein-vassanji
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:50:59.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moyez-gulamhussein-vassanji"
name: "Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji"
slug: "moyez-gulamhussein-vassanji"
description: "Moyez G. Vassanji is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. Vassanji's work has been translated into several languages. As of 2020, he has published nine novels, as well as two short-fiction collections and two nonfiction books. Vassanji's writings often focus on issues of colonial history, migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity."
tagline: "Canadian writer (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahdaf_Soueif_and_M.G._Vassanji_in_the_Khalideyya_Library.jpg_(Cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44
  momentum:             1.337099811676083
  historical:           7.688338666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4869128/"
    handle:    "nm4869128"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mgvassanji.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyez_G._Vassanji"
    title: "Moyez G. Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مويز جلام حسين فاسانجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyez_G._Vassanji"
    title: "Moyez G. Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Vassanji"
    title: "M. G. Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85.%D8%AC%DB%8C._%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "ام.جی. واسنجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyez_Vassanji"
    title: "Moyez Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyez_Vassanji"
    title: "Moyez Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyez_G._Vassanji"
    title: "Moyez G. Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.G._Vassanji"
    title: "M.G. Vassanji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2328893"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump