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Ben Okri
The title it written in reverse on the cover.
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Collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The volume offers insight into the writer's creative process and…
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Enter the enchanted forest of the festival for the broken-hearted... Hearts will be healed, and hearts broken, but nobody will leave this festival exactly as they arrived, in the new…
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In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples see each other in a new light.
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"A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa and across the previous century, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian poet and novelist Ben…
Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.
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In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village.
The Age of Magic has…
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A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author.
Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated…
This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the complex issues that have burdened Africa.
First published in 1992, Ben Okri's remarkable…
Abiodun Adeniji
Ben Okri: The Quest for an African Utopia investigates the unethical cornucopia of myth and realism in Okri’s prose fiction. Ben Okri’s recent works have been excoriated as an excursion…
'this is a follow-up to Les Danseurs, published in 2015 - and in Expression of Freedom he once again gets under the skin of the medium, celebrating its togetherness and…
Five contemporary writers respond to Guston's work through imaginative fiction that proves his continual influence on today's creative culture
In the short story collection Five Stories for Philip Guston, edited…
Professor Rosemary Alice Gray (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with…
William Golding
Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age, from the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the…
Heba Mohamed Abdelaziz
This book is a comparative study of the writings of the South African author John Maxwell Coetzee and the Nigerian author Ben Silver Okri. It charts the thematic and technical…
An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions.
These poems range across a wide variety of subjects, from the autobiographical to the philosophical, from war to love, from nature to the difficulty of truly seeing.
An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winning author.
There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far-art in all…
A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to discover the real Arcadia.
This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty…
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A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
In this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize-winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our…
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker-winner Ben Okri.
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.
"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Phoenix House, an imprint of Orion Books, in 1996; paperback reprint edition published in 2014 by Head of Zeus, Ltd."--Title page verso.
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A collection of essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain’s foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and…
In this environmental fairytale made for our times, a little girl must go alone into the forest to find a special flower to cure her sick mother. Written to be…
Okri brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet.
"First published in Great Britain by Methuen Drama, 2021."
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own.
Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed…
An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the Warrior King, Sinuhe written by…
Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to…
A collection of poems reflecting Okri’s concerns about Africa’s colossal economic and political problems.
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic.
A novel about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slavers. Two lovers meet for the first time. One is the son of a king, struggling…
Whether the subject is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri’s lyrical, poetic and…
A collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona…
The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country.
A…
"First published in the UK in 2021 by Head of Zeus Ltd."
In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a…
Presents the adventures of Azaro.
