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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 in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez . [4]
Ben Okri (Minna, 15 marzo 1959) è uno scrittore nigeriano. Viene generalmente considerato come uno dei più importanti poeti e romanzieri della letteratura africana in lingua inglese ; la sua opera più celebre, La via della fame ( The Famished Road ), ha vinto nel 1991 il Booker Prize per la narrativa fantastica .
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, aphorist, playwright, and writer of film-scripts. His writing challenges perceptions of reality. He is also a cultural activist. He was knighted in 2023 for services to Literature. He was born in Nigeria and came to England as a child.
19 apr 2024 · Ben Okri is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who used magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth. His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. Learn more about Ben Okri’s life and writings here.
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Ben Okri. b. 1959. https://benokri.co.uk/. Photo by Matt Bray. Born in Minna, Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and an Urhobo father, poet, fiction writer, and essayist Ben Okri spent his early childhood in London while his father studied law and returned to Nigeria with his family in 1968.
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.
26 gen 2023 · By Anderson Tepper. Published Jan. 26, 2023 Updated Jan. 30, 2023. Ben Okri, the prizewinning Nigerian British author, has never been easy to define. Throughout his 40-year career, critics have...
