File consists of records, mainly photocopies with some original newspaper clippings, pertaining to Vassanji and his publications in the media. Records were compiled by his literary agency.
File consists of records, mainly photocopies and computer print outs, pertaining to Vassanji and his publications in the media. Records were compiled by his literary agency.
File consists of records, mainly photocopies and computer print outs, pertaining to Vassanji and his publications in the media. Records were compiled by his literary agency.
File consists of records pertaining to the publication of “The Gunny Sack” mainly with Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. and Heinemann International. File also contains publisher reviews of Vassanji’s manuscripts.
File consists of records from publishing houses and literary funding agencies pertaining to Vassanji’s attempts of having “Uhuru Street” and “The Gunny Sack” published.
File consists of correspondence, an original published article, and an invoice for a published statement condemning recent attacks on the United Talmud Torah elementary school library in Montreal, published on May 8, 2004. The article lists all people involved or who helped pay for its publication. The file also consists of brief notes from the undersigned as Vassanji organized the statement’s publication and wrote the piece.
File consists of annotated drafts of speeches Vassanji gave at convocations including Carleton University, York University, University of Toronto, and McMaster University.
File consists of correspondence from York University, McMaster University and the University of Toronto regarding convocations for honorary Doctor of Letters degrees.
File consists of an off-print guest editorial published in “Canadian Literature,” volume 190, autumn 2006. File also contains several annotated drafts of the editorial and index cards with notes for an acceptance speech on the same topic.
File consists of correspondence and information pertaining to the Governor General’s Literary Award. Vassanji was a finalist for the “Assassin’s Song” in 2007 and won the award for nonfiction for “A Place Within: Rediscovering India” in 2009.
File consists of a copy of a poetic response to prominent issues in Alfred Corbin’s diary or ‘book of secrets.” Corbin is a character from Vassanji’s novel “The Book of Secrets.”
File consists of correspondence, travel arrangements, workshop program and an interview transcript between Vassanji and two members of the South Asian Studies Council, Yale University.
File consists of a response by Vassanji to the attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001. File also contains letters to The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail seeking publication, as well as to Bruce Westwood, literary agent.
File consists of four lined pages of a handwritten response to a newspaper article in the New York Times, 28 Aug. 1988, by Bharati Mukherjee titled “Immigrant Writing: Give Us Your Maximalists!” File also contains an original copy of the newspaper article.
File consists of two drafts of Vassanji’s forward in the book “Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth” by Mohandas K. Gandhi. The edition of this book with Vassanji’s forward was published in 2011.
