Ben Okri, Biography, The Famished Road, Books, & Facts

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. Learn more about Ben Okri’s life and writings here.

Books & Bibliography - Ben Okri Official Site

The Freedom Artist

The Famished Road by Ben Okri: 9780593320259

The Famished Road Trilogy Book Series

Ben Okri: My six best books - Don Quixote, Invisible Man and more, Books, Entertainment

The Famished Road - B&N Reads

Booker Prize–Winning Author Ben Okri to Deliver Ha Jin Lecture Tonight, BU Today

Ben Okri The Booker Prizes

The Famished Road: Ben Okri's Imaginary Homelands - Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

You do this or you die': how Ben Okri wrote The Famished Road

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