My blogger-personality Talatu-Carmen reflects my rapidly developing multiple personalities, and embodies my chronic inability to focus on just one thing. My blog Abubuwan da nake tunani chronicled the things that flitted across my mind often when I was procrastinating my school work and is now a vestige of graduate school. Most of my posts have to do with Africa, Nigeria, or Hausa culture. In the blog Abubuwan da nake Rubutawa, I place larger chunks of text (short stories, translation projects, film and book reviews) that I'd like to get feedback on. Please feel free to comment, but please do not use, quote, or re-post anything from these blogs without first requesting my permission.
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REALLY??!! You haven't heard of Helon Habila? If you can, try to see him while he is touring in the north. I think he's going to go down in history as one of Nigeria's major authors. He won the Caine prize for African Writing in 2001 and the Commonwealth writer's prize in 2003 for his novel Waiting for an Angel, and he recently published his second novel Measuring Time.
Here is a biography I wrote of him some time back: http://talatu-carmen.blogspot.com/2007/01/brief-biography-of-helon-habila.html
I wrote my MA thesis on his first novel Waiting for an Angel, and recently interviewed him, which I'll try to post here. An abbreviated version of the interview was supposed to appear in Leadership on Monday, but I haven't seen a link yet, so I'm not sure whether it did or not.
Anyway, I REALLY recommend his novels. If you want to find out more, search for Helon Habila on this blog. I've written quite a bit on his writing.
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Helon Habila? the name does not ring a bell, am I missing smth? more info on the guy pls
Myabubakar,
REALLY??!! You haven't heard of Helon Habila? If you can, try to see him while he is touring in the north. I think he's going to go down in history as one of Nigeria's major authors. He won the Caine prize for African Writing in 2001 and the Commonwealth writer's prize in 2003 for his novel Waiting for an Angel, and he recently published his second novel Measuring Time.
Here is a biography I wrote of him some time back:
http://talatu-carmen.blogspot.com/2007/01/brief-biography-of-helon-habila.html
I wrote my MA thesis on his first novel Waiting for an Angel, and recently interviewed him, which I'll try to post here. An abbreviated version of the interview was supposed to appear in Leadership on Monday, but I haven't seen a link yet, so I'm not sure whether it did or not.
Anyway, I REALLY recommend his novels. If you want to find out more, search for Helon Habila on this blog. I've written quite a bit on his writing.
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