"Employing a fiction writer's sensibility and a journalist's curiosity, 'The Chibok Girls' provides poignant portraits of everyday Nigerians whose lives have been transformed by extremist forces"--Back cover.
"Employing a fiction writer's sensibility and a journalist's curiosity, 'The Chibok Girls' provides poignant portraits of everyday Nigerians whose lives have been transformed by extremist forces"--Back cover.
Helon Habila was born in Nigeria and is the author of three novels, Oil on Water, Measuring Time, and Waiting for an Angel. His fiction, poems and short stories have won many honors and awards, including the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section), the Virginia Library Foundation's fiction award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize. Habila's short story, "The Hotel Malogo" won the Emily Balch Prize. Oil on Water, which deals with environmental pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2011), the Orion Book Award (2012), and the PEN/Open Book Award (2012). He worked in Lagos as a journalist before moving to England in 2002. He co-edited the British Council's anthology, New Writing 14 and edited The Granta Book of African Short Story in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.
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