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."
- Europe
- Southern Europe
- Macedonia
teaches playwriting, directing, and creative writing in the drama department of the University of Skopje. Her most recent play, The Place Where I Have Never Been, was staged this year in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She received her theatre and film training at the University of Ljubljana, and earned the M.A. from the Kiril I Metodij University in Skopje. Her many publications include a collection of plays in English, A Dream and Other Works (Metaforum, Skopje, 1996); several screenplays including The Disappearance of Susana Arsova (1993). Most of her performances have toured in Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia, and Bosnia. She is the IWP's first representative from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and she is at the IWP through a grant from the USIA.
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