The Gunny Sack (44 page)

M.G. Vassanji won a regional Commonwealth Prize for
The Gunny Sack
(1989). He is the author of four other novels:
No New Land
(1991);
The Book of Secrets
(1994), which won the inaugural Giller Prize and the Bressani Prize;
Amriika
(1999); and
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
(2003), which made Vassanji the first writer to win the Giller Prize a second time. He is also the author of a collection of short stories,
Uhuru Street
. He was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize in 1994 in recognition of his achievement in and contribution to the world of letters, and in the same year was chosen as one of twelve Canadians on
Maclean’s
Honour Roll. Born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania, M.G. Vassanji attended university in the U.S. and lives in Toronto.