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[PAST EVENT] Hayes Series presents Helon Habila
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Helon Habila is a professor of creative writing at George Mason University in Virginia. He studied in Nigeria and the UK. He is the author of four novels: Waiting for an Angel (WW Norton, 2002), Measuring Time (WW Norton, 2007), Oil on Water (WW Norton, 2011), and the latest Travelers (WW Norton, 2019), about African migrants in Europe. He is the author of the nonfiction book, The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria (Columbia Global Reports,, 2016) and editor of the Granta Book of African Short Story (Granta, 2013). He is a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. His reviews, essays and short stories have been published in many journals and magazines including Granta, Guernica, WSJ, VQR, the New York Times and the UK Guardian. His awards include the Caine Prize, the Virginia Library Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. He lives in Virginia with his family.
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