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Born in Nigeria, Helon Habila worked there as a lecturer and journalist before moving to England as the African Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He has published three novels, Waiting for an Angel (2002), Measuring Time (2007) and Oil on Water (2010). His writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize 2001, and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2003. Habila teaches Creative Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives with his family.