Helon Habila

Biography


Helon Habila is the author of two novels, Measuring Time and Waiting for an Angel, winner of the Caine Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He is also the author of the biography Mai Kaltungo (1997). In 2005–2006 he was the first Chinua Achebe Fellow at Bard College in New York. He currently teaches creative writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He has been a contributing editor to VQR since 2004.

See Work

Winter 2010

Irekefe Island

By Helon Habila
Spring 2007

The Hotel Malogo

By Helon Habila
ESSAYS / Winter 2006

On Dambudzo Marechera: The Life and Times of an African Writer

By Helon Habila

The second sentence in The House of Hunger is: The sun was coming up. It must have seemed pretty sunny and promising on the plane after the initial difficulties. But then the third sentence reads: I couldn’t think where to go. With Dambudzo...

FICTION / Summer 2004

My Uncle Ezekiel

By Helon Habila

My uncle Ezekiel’s body was discovered in a ditch early on Christmas morning, three years ago. Beside him was an empty bottle of cheap whisky; I still remember the red and green label on it, with the inscription: Christian Brothers. Because...