# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helon-habila
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:40:14.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helon-habila"
name: "Helon Habila"
slug: "helon-habila"
description: "Helon Habila Ngalabak is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia."
tagline: "Nigerian novelist and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helon_Habila_01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.08301066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "هيلون هابيلا"
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    title: "Хабила, Хелон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump