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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.Triumphant...a joyful and entertaining read
Guardian
Passages of extraordinary beauty... Okri paints a convincing surrealist picture
Sunday Times
Reading Okri felt to me like talking to someone who has a secret
New Statesman
Ben Okri writes beautifully... a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy... fraught with wild visions
The Times
A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the rich and the poor... Okri's voice is all his own
Independent
A prodigious talent
Time