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
- Western Europe
- The Netherlands
won the Jo Peters Poëzie Prijs in 2006 for his debut collection of poems Inzinkingen [‘Relapses’], the year his second poetry book Donkere arena [‘Dark Arena’] was published, followed in 2009 by a collection of love poems titled Wij zijn de laatste geliefden in de wereld [‘We Are the Last Lovers in the World’]. He has also been a programmer for Rotterdam’s Poetry International Festival. His participation is made possible in part through the US Embassy in the Hague.
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