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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 20 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.
Awards: Booker (1991) see all
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Novels
Flowers and Shadows (1980)
The Landscapes Within (1981)
Incidents at the Shrine (1986)
Birds of Heaven (1993)
Astonishing the Gods (1995)
Dangerous Love (1996)
A Way of Being Free (1997)
Alfredo Jaar - The Lament of Images (1999)
In Arcadia (2002)
The Last Gift of the Master Artists (2007)
aka Starbook
Tales of Freedom (2009)
The Freedom Artist (2019)
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted (2025)
The Landscapes Within (1981)
Incidents at the Shrine (1986)
Birds of Heaven (1993)
Astonishing the Gods (1995)
Dangerous Love (1996)
A Way of Being Free (1997)
Alfredo Jaar - The Lament of Images (1999)
In Arcadia (2002)
The Last Gift of the Master Artists (2007)
aka Starbook
Tales of Freedom (2009)
The Freedom Artist (2019)
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted (2025)
Collections
Stars of the New Curfew (1988)
An African Elegy (poems) (1992)
Mental Fight (poems) (1999)
Wild (poems) (2012)
The Magic Lamp (2017) (with Rosemary Clunie)
Rise Like Lions (poems) (2018)
The Comic Destiny (2019)
A Prayer for the Living (2019)
A Fire in My Head (poems) (2021)
Reverse Engineering II (2022) (with others)
Tiger Work (2023)
An African Elegy (poems) (1992)
Mental Fight (poems) (1999)
Wild (poems) (2012)
The Magic Lamp (2017) (with Rosemary Clunie)
Rise Like Lions (poems) (2018)
The Comic Destiny (2019)
A Prayer for the Living (2019)
A Fire in My Head (poems) (2021)
Reverse Engineering II (2022) (with others)
Tiger Work (2023)
Novellas and Short Stories
Anthologies edited
Plays show
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Ben Okri
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (2016)
Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare
edited by
Daniel Hahn and Margarita Valencia
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