Prison Stories
 First edition | |
| Author | Helon Habila |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary Fiction, Social novel |
| Set in | Nigeria |
| Publisher | Epic Books |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | Nigeria |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 153 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 9789783039728 (first edition) |
| OCLC | 50069353 |
Prison Stories, styled as Prison Stories: A Collection of Short Storie[s], is a collection of prison stories by Nigerian writer Helon Habila. "Love Poem", which is among the stories included in the collection, won the 2001 Caine Prize for African Writing.[1][2] It was first published by Epic Books.[3][4][5][6][7]
Plot summary
[edit]The book is a collection of short stories about the brutal life faced by prisoners in prison, mostly by those are innocent.
References
[edit]- ^ Stephen Williams (1 September 2001). "Nigeria's Habila wins Caine prize". All Business. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Helon Habila". Contemporary Writers. British Council. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Prison diary". The Economist. 26 July 2001.
- ^ Courtois, Cédric (2018). "'In this Country, the Very Air We Breathe is Politics': Helon Habila and the Flowing Together of Politics and Poetics". Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 40 (2): 55–68. doi:10.4000/ces.289.
- ^ Singer, Ron (2007). "O Ti Lo Waju (You Have Gone Past All): The Caine Prize for African Writing". The Georgia Review. 61 (2): 401–421. JSTOR 41402861 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Helon Habila highlights plight of migrants in new novel". Daily Monitor. 21 July 2020.
- ^ Cowley, Jason (26 July 2001). "'To finish my book was an act of will'". The Guardian.
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