Ben Okri
Author Biography & Works
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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Books by Ben Okri
Famished Road
A Booker Prize winning novel, this story is told by a spirit child who exists between the world of the living and the world of the dead, it is a...
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