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Helon Habila

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Born: December 31 1966

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Helon Habila was born in Nigeria in 1967. He studied literature at the University of Jos and taught at the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, before moving to Lagos to work as a journalist. In Lagos he wrote his first novel, Waiting for an Angel, which won the Caine Prize in 2001. Waiting for an Angel has been translated into many languages including Dutch, Italian, Swedish, and French.

In 2002, he moved to England to become the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. After his fellowship he enrolled for a PhD in Creative Writing. His writing has won many prizes including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2003. In 2005-2006 he was the first Chinua Achebe Fellow at Bard College in New York. He is a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review, and in 2006 he co-edited the British Council's anthology, NW14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14. His second novel, Measuring Time, was published in February 2007.

He currently teaches Creative Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives with his wife and children.

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Helon Habila

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Books from Helon Habila

Oil on Water

Measuring Time

Travelers

Waiting for an Angel

The Granta Book of the African Short Story

The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria

Granta 91: Wish You Were Here

Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa

NW14: The Anthology of New Writing

Reisen: Roman (AfrikAWunderhorn)

Afrika

Esperando un ángel

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know

Love Stories From Africa

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