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Biographical note
Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.His most apocalyptic, explosive vision yet
Scotsman
A novel of paradoxes and impossibilities, conceived poetically and carrying readers along as though on a fast-flowing stream...I admire it hugely
Literary Review
A potent combination of political, metaphorical and mythical storytelling...pure celebration
Scotsman
A deliberate and important piece of writing
Times Literary Supplement
Okri's writing is hailed for its intelligent, tenderness, poeticism and luminosity
Financial Times