In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."
The writers who spend time in Iowa City never quite disappear from our horizon. Under the Periscope rubric, we occasionally invite an IWP alum to answer a few private and public questions.
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