Helon Habila
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Helon Habila (born 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet. He won the Caine Prize for African fiction (short story) in 2001, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize(Best First Book, Africa Region) in 2003.
He studied at the University of Jos and theUniversity of East Anglia and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Washington D.C.[1][2]
Habila's webisite: [1]
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[edit] Books
- Waiting for an Angel, (2004) Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-101006-1
- Measuring Time, (2007) W. W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-05251-6 - reviewed at [2]
- New Writing 14, (2006) Granta Books. (co-edited with Lavinia Greenlaw).
- Dreams, Miracles, and Jazz: An Anthology of New Africa Fiction, (2007), Pan Macmillan. (co-edited with Kadija George).
[edit] Further reading
- Writing Africa, panel held at Bard College with Chinua Achebe, Kofi Anyidoho, Emmanuel Dongala, Helon Habila and Caryl Phillips, 2006, accessed at [3]
