Helon Habila
Helon Habila | |
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Habila in 2009 | |
| Born | Helon Habila Ngalabak 1967 (age 57–58) Kaltungo, Gombe State, Nigeria |
| Citizenship | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | University of Jos University of East Anglia |
| Notable awards | 2001 Caine Prize 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa category 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize |
| Website | |
| therealhelonhabila.com | |
Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.