Search results
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968.
May 30, 2023 · In 1991 Ben Okri became the first Black writer to win the Booker Prize. He explains how his novel, The Famished Road, was written on a magic tide of freedom
Sep 12, 2022 · Deborah Treisman interviews the author Ben Okri about “The Secret Source,” his story from the September 19, 2022, issue of The New Yorker.
Sep 12, 2022 · Fiction by Ben Okri: “For many years, there had been people who said that something was different about the water.”
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968.
Feb 14, 2023 · We live in a universe of “ancient, unyielding” forces, Ben Okri suggests in his novel “Dangerous Love.” Okri is famous for bringing together many forms of storytelling to show such forces ...
Ben Okri has 83 books on Goodreads with 83241 ratings. Ben Okri’s most popular book is The Famished Road.
