Helon Habila Ngalabak

Bio: Helon Habila Ngalabak is a professor of creative writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He was born in Nigeria and worked as a journalist before moving to the U.S. He is the author of four novels: Waiting for an Angel, Measuring Time, Oil on Water, and Travelers. Habila edited The Granta Book of The African Short Story, and his nonfiction work, The Chibok Girls, focuses on the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists in northeastern Nigeria in 2014. He is a regular contributor to the The Guardian and is a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. Habila’s work has won many awards including the Caine Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region), The Virginia Library Prize for Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

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