Ben Okri
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Biography
Full Name: Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, and playwright. His novel, The Famished Road, won the Booker Prize in 1991. His works have been translated into 26 languages. He has been a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE.
Ben Okri’s books have won numerous international prizes. The recipient of many honorary doctorates, he is a vice-president of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum for his outstanding contribution to the Arts and cross-cultural understanding. He also wrote the film script for the film N: The Madness of Reason. He is an honorary fellow of Mansfield college, Oxford. His book Astonishing the Gods was chosen by the BBC as one of the most influential novels written over the last 300 years.
He was born in Nigeria, and lives in London. His latest novel is The Freedom Artist. His latest book, a volume of stories, is Prayer for the Living and a new collection of poems A Fire in my Head was published in 2021.
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Having outwitted death, Azaro, the spirit child, remains in the land of the living. Oppression and violence continue to plague the city, where political factions battle and bar owner Madame Koto backs the 'Party of the Rich' with magical, bewitching force. But...
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So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use.
He is born into a world of poverty and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment,...
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