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Ben Okri ist Fellow der Royal Society of Literature und bekam 2001 den Orden Officer of the British Empire. Neben dem Booker-Prize 1993 gewann er den Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, den Aga Khan Prize for Fiction und den Literaturpreis Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. Im Juni 2023 wurde Okri in den Ritterstand erhoben.
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez . [4]
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, aphorist, playwright, and writer of film-scripts. His writing challenges perceptions of reality. He is also a cultural activist. He was knighted in 2023 for services to Literature.
Okri, who served as poetry editor for West Africa magazine, has published numerous books, including the novels The Last Gift of the Master Artists (Other Press, 2022) and The Freedom Artist (Akashic Books, 2019); the short story collection Prayer for the Living (Akashic Books, 2019); the prose-poetry hybrids Tales of Freedom (Rider, 2009) and A ...
Ben Okri, 1959 in Nigeria geboren, verbrachte seine Kindheit dort und in England. Er studierte Literaurwissenschaft und veröffentlichte Lyrik, Erzählungen und Romane. Sein wohl bedeutendstes Werk "Die hungrige Straße", gerne auch "der Nigeria-Roman" genannt, erschien 1991, und 1994 erstmalig in deutscher Sprache, für das er mit dem Brooker ...
19. Apr. 2024 · Ben Okri 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. His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991.
26. Jan. 2023 · Ben Okri, the prizewinning Nigerian British author, has never been easy to define. Throughout his 40-year career, critics have struggled to place him, labeling him a magical realist, an African...
