Helon Habila has revealed the dates for his US book tour for his new novel Travelers. The book, his fourth novel, was released this June by Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton. His first book to be set outside Nigeria, Travellers roams the continent of Europe, making stops in Germany, Italy, and the UK, its characters […]
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Helon Habila’s Fourth Novel, Travellers, Is a Roaming Exploration of the Lives of African Immigrants in Three European Countries
Helon Habila’s fifth book and fourth novel will arrive in June 2019, from Penguin Random House imprint Hamish Hamilton. Titled Travellers, the 320-page book follows the novels Waiting for an Angel (2002), Measuring Time (2007) and Oil on Water (2011), and the nonfiction book The Chibok Girls (2016). His first book to be set outside […]
She Cannot Write a Boring Sentence: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone Praised by Helon Habila
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s novel House of Stone, an exploration of family history, colonial Rhodesia, and the birth of modern Zimbabwe, was released in June, in the UK by Atlantic Books, and in South Africa by Penguin, and is forthcoming in the US from W. W. Norton in January, 2019. The novel, which comes with blurbs from NoViolet […]
Writing in Migration | Photos from the Festival of African Writers in Berlin
Last month, the Nigerian-German novelist Olumide Popoola, author of When We Speak of Nothing, curated a star-studded festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, held from 26–28 April at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 3010178, Berlin, was themed “Writing in Migration” and was presented by the literary agency InterKontinental. It was sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Berlin’s Senate Department for […]
Olumide Popoola to Curate Star-Studded 2018 Berlin Festival of African Writers
Olumide Popoola, Nigerian-German author of When We Speak of Nothing, will be curating a star-studded 2018 festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, themed “Writing in Migration,” is presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and will be attended by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, and Ghana. For the first […]
Helon Habila Turns 50, Thanks Fans for Birthday Wishes
Helon Habila recently celebrated his 50th birthday, and afterwards came on Facebook to thank fans for their wishes. He wrote: Thanks for all your birthday wishes. I turned 50 today. A pioneer of the resurgence of African literature in the 2000s, Habila’s success helped pave the way for many of his contemporaries as well as […]
Helon Habila and Maaza Mengiste to Judge Fall For The Book’s New American Voices Award
Helona Habila and Maaza Mengiste have been announced as judges for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. The novelists will preside over submissions alongside Booker and Baileys Prize finalist Madeleine Thien. Created by Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s oldest literary festival, to mark its 20th anniversary, the Institute for Immigration Research […]
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