What: The Trinity College English Department welcomes novelist Helon Habila as part of the Spring 2009 Allan K. Smith Reading Series.  This event is free and open to the public.  A book signing and reception will follow. 

When: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 ~ 4:30 p.m.  

Where: Reese Room, Smith House on the campus on Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Background: Helon Habila was born in Nigeria. His first novel, Waiting for an Angel, was published in 2003 by Penguin and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. A second novel, Measuring Time, was awarded the 2008 Library of Virginia Foundation`s fiction prize.  Habila is a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review and has served as the Chinua Achebe Fellow in Global Africana Studies at Bard College. A journalist and editor as well as a novelist, Habila is on the graduate Creative Writing faculty at George Mason University.  To read excerpts from Habila’s novel, Measuring Time, follow this link: http://internet2.trincoll.edu/TrinExchange/AnnDocs/e12205_1.pdf.
 
This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Tracy Quigley at 860-297-2568, or by email at Tracy.Quigley@trincoll.edu.

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