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NAME: Ben Okri
OCCUPATION: Author
BIRTH DATE: March 15, 1959 (Age: 54)
EDUCATION: Urhobo College, University of Essex
PLACE OF BIRTH: Minna, Nigeria
ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces

Best Known For

Booker Prize–winning novelist Ben Okri is the author of The Famished Road (1991), Infinite Riches (1998) and Starbook (2007), among others.

Ben Okri biography

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Born March 15, 1959, Ben Okri was educated both in his native Nigeria and in England. His first novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981) use surrealism to show the dysfunction of a politically scarred country. This theme persists in Okri's work, which also includes the Booker Prize–winning novel The Famished Road (1991) and essay collection A Way of Being Free (1997).

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