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| Helon Habila Before he won the 2001 Caine Prize, which is worth $15,000, Helon Habila had never left Nigeria. He was working as a hack writer on a "romance" magazine called Hints, mechanically producing Mills & Boon-style stories of love lost and regained. The Daily Telegraph, October 2002 Mario Vargas Llosa To read Mario Vargas Llosa is to encounter a writer engaged in a complicated process of remaking the modern world in fiction. He is an undeviatingly serious writer, a visionary, whose novels are steeped in the darkness, the violence and the obsessions of his native Latin America. The Daily Telegraph, April 2002 |
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