Helon Habila

Helon Habila Ngalabak is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. Habila is also on the board of Africa Writers Trust, an organization started by the Ugandan writer, Goretti Kyumuhendo, to promote African writers and writing. Habila has been a contributing editor to the “Virginia Quarterly Review” since 2004. From 2010-2013 Habila coordinated and facilitated the Fidelity Bank Writers Workshop in Nigeria, and has edited an anthology of stories generated by the workshop participants, titled, Dreams at Dawn (2012).