Ben Okri

Ben Okri

Ben Okri was born in 1959, Ben Okri has written at least 31 books. Their most popular book is The Famished Road with 51 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.

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Author Bio

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. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.

He was poetry editor for West Africa magazine between 1983 and 1986 and broadcast regularly for the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985. He was appointed Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge in 1991, a post he held until 1993. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, and was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Westminster (1997) and Essex (2002).

In 1991 Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village, this is the first in a trilogy of novels which tell the story of Azaro, a spirit child. Azaro's narrative is continued in Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998). Other recent fiction includes Astonishing the Gods (1995) and Dangerous Love (1996), which was awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. His latest novels are In Arcadia (2002) and Starbook (2007).

Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in 2001. He lives in London.

The Famished Road

#1 of 3 in The Famished Road Trilogy

1991 • 51 Readers • 500 pages 4

The Age of Magic

2014 • 5 Readers • 288 pages 2.7

Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child
ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1964 • 4 Readers • 178 pages 3.5

The Freedom Artist

2019 • 3 Readers • 368 pages

A Way of Being Free

1998 • 3 Readers • 272 pages 5

Starbook

Starbook
ByBen Okri

2007 • 3 Readers • 432 pages

A Time for New Dreams

2011 • 3 Readers • 160 pages 4

Skald: The Short Story Collection

Skald: The Short Story Collection
BySophie Hannah,Ben Okri,+1 more

2018 • 2 Readers • 5 pages 4.5

Astonishing the Gods

2022 • 2 Readers • 176 pages

Songs of Enchantment

#2 of 3 in The Famished Road Trilogy

1993 • 2 Readers • 297 pages 5

Mental Fight

Mental Fight
ByBen Okri

1999 • 2 Readers • 96 pages 3

Infinite Riches

#3 of 3 in The Famished Road Trilogy

Infinite Riches
ByBen Okri

1998 • 2 Readers • 394 pages 2

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1988 • 2 Readers

The Last Gift of the Master Artists

2023 • 2 Readers • 330 pages

Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them

Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them
ByDeborah Levy,Clive James,+48 more

2021 • 2 Readers • 225 pages

Magic

Magic
ByFay Weldon,Kate Atkinson,+15 more

2002 • 1 Reader • 312 pages 2

Den skarpsindige lavadelsmann Don Quijote av la Mancha

Den skarpsindige lavadelsmann Don Quijote av la Mancha
ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra,Arne Worren(Translator)

1605 • 1 Reader • 892 pages

Prayer for the Living

2019 • 1 Reader • 216 pages

Every Leaf a Hallelujah

2021 • 1 Reader

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Die hungrige Straße
ByBen Okri,Uli Wittmann

1991 • 1 Reader • 656 pages

Dangerous Love

Dangerous Love
ByBen Okri

1996 • 1 Reader • 416 pages

The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age

2017 • 1 Reader • 128 pages

Freeman's: Potere

#5 of 5 in Freeman's

Freeman's: Potere
ByElif Shafak,Leïla Sliman,+31 more

2018 • 1 Reader • 216 pages

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories

1999 • 1 Reader • 667 pages 3

La libertà

La libertà
ByBen Okri

2019 • 1 Reader • 296 pages

The Dialogue of the Dogs

The Dialogue of the Dogs
ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra,William Rolandson(Translator)

1613 • 86 pages

Mental Fight: An Epic Poem

1999 • 97 pages

Freedom Artist

Freedom Artist
ByBen Okri

2019 • 256 pages

Wild

Wild
ByBen Okri

2012 • 100 pages

In Arcadia

In Arcadia
ByBen Okri

2002 • 272 pages