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Ben Okri
Nigerian writer
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Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria) 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.
Novelist Ben Okri
Novelist Ben Okri
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Born: March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria (age 65)
Awards And Honors: Booker Prize (1991)
Notable Works: “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn” “A Way of Being Free” “An African Elegy” “Astonishing the Gods” “Dangerous Love” “Flowers and Shadows” “In Arcadia” “Incidents at the Shrine” “Infinite Riches” “Mental Flight” “Prayer for the Living” “Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many” “Songs of Enchantment” “Starbook” “Stars of the New Curfew” “The Age of Magic” “The Famished Road” “The Freedom Artist” “The Landscapes Within” “A Time for New Dreams” “Wild”
Movement / Style: magic realism
Okri attended Urhobo College in Warri, Nigeria, and the University of Essex in Colchester, England. His first novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), employ surrealistic images to depict the corruption and lunacy of a politically scarred country. The short-story collections Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988) portray the essential link in Nigerian culture between the physical world and the world of the spirits.
Nigerian writer
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Article History
Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria) 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.
Novelist Ben Okri
Novelist Ben Okri
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Born: March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria (age 65)
Awards And Honors: Booker Prize (1991)
Notable Works: “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn” “A Way of Being Free” “An African Elegy” “Astonishing the Gods” “Dangerous Love” “Flowers and Shadows” “In Arcadia” “Incidents at the Shrine” “Infinite Riches” “Mental Flight” “Prayer for the Living” “Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many” “Songs of Enchantment” “Starbook” “Stars of the New Curfew” “The Age of Magic” “The Famished Road” “The Freedom Artist” “The Landscapes Within” “A Time for New Dreams” “Wild”
Movement / Style: magic realism
Okri attended Urhobo College in Warri, Nigeria, and the University of Essex in Colchester, England. His first novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), employ surrealistic images to depict the corruption and lunacy of a politically scarred country. The short-story collections Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988) portray the essential link in Nigerian culture between the physical world and the world of the spirits.
Ben Okri
Nigerian writer
Written and fact-checked by
Article History
Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria) 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.
Novelist Ben Okri
Novelist Ben Okri
See all media
Born: March 15, 1959, Minna, Nigeria (age 65)
Awards And Honors: Booker Prize (1991)
Notable Works: “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn” “A Way of Being Free” “An African Elegy” “Astonishing the Gods” “Dangerous Love” “Flowers and Shadows” “In Arcadia” “Incidents at the Shrine” “Infinite Riches” “Mental Flight” “Prayer for the Living” “Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many” “Songs of Enchantment” “Starbook” “Stars of the New Curfew” “The Age of Magic” “The Famished Road” “The Freedom Artist” “The Landscapes Within” “A Time for New Dreams” “Wild”
Movement / Style: magic realism
Okri attended Urhobo College in Warri, Nigeria, and the University of Essex in Colchester, England. His first novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), employ surrealistic images to depict the corruption and lunacy of a politically scarred country. The short-story collections Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988) portray the essential link in Nigerian culture between the physical world and the world of the spirits.
