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Nigerian novelist and poet (born )

Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November )^[1] is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in ^[2] He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 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.^[3][4][5]

Background

Helon Habila was born in Kaltungo, Gombe State, Nigeria, in ^[6] He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Jos and lectured for three years at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.^[7] In , he went to Lagos to write for Hints magazine, moving to Vanguard newspaper as Literary Editor.^[8]

Habila won the Music Society of Nigeria national poetry award for his poem "Another Age" in ,^[9] the same year his short story collection Prison Storie