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Sep 8, 2021 · In 1991, the publication of The Famished Road marked the emergence of a unique literary voice, that of a writer who was born in 1959 in Minna, a railway town in central Nigeria, 19 months before his country’s independence, lived in London between the ages of one-and-a-half and seven, reluctantly traveled back to Nigeria with his parents and siblings in 1966, and eventually decided to settle ...
Jun 16, 2022 · Perhaps the ultimate framers of reality are our parents. In my forthcoming novel, “The Last Gift of the Master Artists,” I quote something my mother once told me: “It is not who you are that ...
Dec 14, 2016 · The narratives that shape the way we see ourselves and the world.Ben Okri writes magical, paradoxical, playful and philosophical things. Novels, poems, essay...
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May 1, 1993 · You have never read a novel like this one. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised face of the woman who would become my mother."
About Every Leaf a Hallelujah. The Guardian: Best Children’s and YA Book of the Year An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road.
BEN OKRI A Man of Many Arts by Vanessa Guignery "I would like to master the art of living," says Lao in The Art of Magic (45). Although this remark is met by demonic laughter, for Ben Okri, living is as much of an art as writ
Jan 17, 2024 · Ben Okri on climate crisis, the purpose of writing, and what we leave behind. PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. PEN’s members are the backbone of our work, helping us to support international literature, campaign for writers at risk, and advocate for the freedom to write and read.
