Ben Okri

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Gender	Male
Age	66
Date of birth	March 15,1959
Zodiac sign	Pisces
Born	Minna
	Nigeria
Parents	Grace Okri
	Silver Oghekeneshineke Loloje Okri
Job	Poet
	Author
	Novelist
Awards	Booker Prize
	Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
	Guardian Fiction Prize
Official site	benokri.co.uk
Notabl award	Man Booker Prize 1991
Genres	Fiction
	Essays
	Poetry
Literari movement	Postmodernism
Movies/Shows	N – The Madness of Reason
Influences	Francis Bacon
	William Blake
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Education	University of Essex Colchester Campus
Date of Reg.	2019-03-06 06:27:36
Date of Upd.	2023-09-14 09:27:53
ID	521872

Songs of Enchantment
Stars ofthe new curfew
Astonishing the gods
A Way of Being Free
Starbook
Dangerous Love
The Freedom Artist
Riquezas Infinitas
En arcadie
The Age of Magic
Incidents at the shrine
An African Elegy
A Time for New Dreams
Tales of Freedom
The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
Mental Fight
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many
Flowers and shadows
Mystery Feast
The landscapes within
Birds of Heaven
Wild
The Comic Destiny
Kin
Un amour dangereux
Combat mental
Etoiles d'un nouveau couvre-feu
Verfängliche Liebe
David Hammons: Give Me a Moment
A Prayer for the Living
Gladniot pat
The Famished Road

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Ben Okri Life story

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.

King's Birthday Honours: Ian Wright, Ken Bruce and Davina McCall on list

Jun 16,2023 5:50 pm

... Former hostage Terry Waite is given a knighthood, alongside novelists Ben Okri, and Martin Amis, who died in May...

Five things about Nigeria: The super power, without power

Feb 16,2020 3:03 am

... Wole Soyinka was the first African to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1986 and Ben Okri, The Hungry street, won the coveted Man-Booker prize in 1991...