Vassanji Lore Singer – M. G. Vassanji
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Vassanji_Lore_Singer
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:The_Magic_of_Vassanji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Vassanji
This Elephant Soldier is being controlled by Warlord Varos, and Conjurers will need to free him from his will during the Level 75 Minion Quest, The Magic of Vassanji.
Not this, not that, but we stand in the in-between Wizard. We will both be changed by this duel forever. Who will we be after?
Vassanji Lore Singer
Moyez G. Vassanji (born 30 May 1950 in Kenya) is a Canadian novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. As of 2020, he has published nine novels, as well as two short-fiction collections and two nonfiction books. Vassanji’s writings, which have received considerable critical acclaim, often focus on issues of colonial history, migration, diaspora, citizenship, gender and ethnicity.
In 1989, after the publication of his first novel, The Gunny Sack, Vassanji was invited to spend a season at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. The Gunny Sack won a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1990. He won the inaugural Giller Prize in 1994 for The Book of Secrets. That year, he also won the Harbourfront Festival Prize in recognition of his “achievement in and contribution to the world of letters,” and was one of twelve Canadians chosen for Maclean’s Magazine’s Honour Roll. In 1996 he was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, India.
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M. G. Vassanji photograph is borrowed from Macleans website and is (c) Jaime Hogge.
https://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/m-g-vassanji-travels-back-to-tanzania/
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