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...
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The Famished Road (category Novels by Ben Okri)
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...
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Astonishing the Gods (category Novels by Ben Okri)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Dangerous Love (novel) (redirect from Dangerous Love by Ben Okri)
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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Msamati, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Chibundu Onuzo, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Ben Okri, and Margaret Busby. On 5 November 2019 BBC News listed Things Fall Apart...
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The Age of Magic (category Novels by Ben Okri)
The Age of Magic is a 2014 novel by Nigerian writer Ben Okri. It won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2014. "The Age of Magic review: giving substance to...
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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...
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Songs of Enchantment (category Novels by Ben Okri)
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...
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