Helon Habila ( Eng. Helon Habila , November 1967 , Kaltungo, Gombe ) - Nigerian writer. He writes in English.
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| Date of Birth | November 1967 |
| Place of Birth | Kaltungo |
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| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | Kane Award ( 2001 ) [d] ( 2015 ) |
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Joss in Angloistics . He taught, was engaged in journalism and publishing in various cities of the country. Under a British Council scholarship, he moved to the UK in 2002 . He taught at the University of East Anglia ( Norwich ), then at Bard College ( New York , 2005-2006 ) and George Mason University ( Ferfax ). One of the founders of the NGO Union of Writers of Africa , acts as an active promoter of African (and more broadly - non-European) literature, compiled several representative anthologies of modern prose. The books of the writer are translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch and other languages.
With his wife and three children, lives in Virginia .
Artwork
- Another Age ( 2000 , Nigeria Music Society Poetry Award)
- Love Poems, short story (2001, Kane Award )
- Waiting for an Angel / Waiting for an Angel, Penguin Books, 2004 (novel, British Commonwealth Award for debut novel)
- Measuring Time, WW Norton, 2007 (novel, Virginia Library Foundation Award)
- Oil on Water, Hamish Hamilton, 2010 (novel, British Commonwealth Shortlist, Orion Book Award, PEN Open Book Award finalist)
Anthologies
- New Writing 14, Granta Books, 2006 (with Lavinia Greenlow )
- Dreams, Miracles, and Jazz: An Anthology of New Africa Fiction, Pan Macmillan, 2007
- The Granta Book of the African Short Story, Granta, 2011
Literature
- Hanif S. Vision of the post colonial world in new Nigerian fiction: a literary analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila and Chris Abani's selected works. Saarbrüken: LAP Lambert Academic Pub., 2012