Travellers is the new novel by former UEA writing fellow Helon Habila and has recently been published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton. Helon came to UEA as a Writing Fellow in 2004 and subsequently enrolled for the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. His first novel, Waiting for an Angel, was published in 2002 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Africa Region, Best First Book category. His second novel, Measuring Time, was published in 2007, and his third, Oil on the Water, in 2010. This was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He is also the editor of the Granta Book of the African Short Story and most recently the author of The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings And Islamist Militancy In Nigeria. He teaches Creative Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
