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.

The Famished Road: 9780385424769: Okri, Ben: Books

PDF) History as the road of existential struggle in Ben Okri's The famished road (1993)

Sir Ben Okri: Being honoured means helping the human race to be more civilised - The Irish News

Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri

Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri talks about his new environmentally-conscious children's book – Orange County Register

The Famished Road. by Ben OKRI - Paperback - First U.S. edition / First printing. Advance reading copy. - 1991. - from Orpheus Books (SKU: 17897-1)

A Review of In Arcadia by Ben Okri – Compulsive Reader

The text as riddle and Death's many ways: Ben Okri's The Famished Road

An Interview with Award-Winning Author Ben Okri

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