Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors...

The Famished Road is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches...

Astonishing the Gods is a novel by Nigerian writer Ben Okri. On 5 November 2019 BBC News listed Astonishing the Gods on its list of the 100 most influential...

critics rarely regard Othello among Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. As Ben Okri has said: If Othello did not begin as a play about race, then its history...

Flowers and Shadows is a novel by Ben Okri, a Nigerian author who won the Booker Prize award in 1991. The novel was set in Lagos. The novel portrays the...

Dangerous Love is a 1996 novel by Ben Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s. The novel is a remake of an earlier book, The Landscapes Within (1981). It is set...

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(UK/Zimbabwe) in 2007, and Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania) in 2021. In 1991, Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. The Caine Prize for African...

Songs of Enchantment is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the second book in a trilogy that started with The Famished Road (1991) and continues with...

visitors, took its name from a collection of essays by Nigerian writer Ben Okri, and included work by several artists (including Chino Amobi, the Black...