Ben Okri

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Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri (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, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.

Career

1. 1959
   Born
2. 1991
   Won Booker Prize
3. 1997
   Won Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
4. Member of Royal Society of Literature
5. Member of PEN International
6. Member of Royal National Theatre
7. Won Officer of the Order of the British Empire
8. Won Knight Bachelor
9. Notable work: The Famished Road
10. Notable work: Starbook
11. Notable work: Songs of Enchantment
12. Notable work: Every Leaf a Hallelujah

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Minna
• •Citizenship: Nigeria, United Kingdom
• •Known as: writer, journalist, novelist, author
• •Genre: Postmodernism