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Ben Okri
In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a…
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Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.
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Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel ‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long…
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Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker Prize
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Collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The volume offers insight into the writer's creative process and…
William Golding
Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age, from the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the…
Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to…
In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village.
The Age of Magic has…
This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the complex issues that have burdened Africa.
First published in 1992, Ben Okri's remarkable…
A novel about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slavers. Two lovers meet for the first time. One is the son of a king, struggling…
'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take immediate action' New Yorker 'An artist's ardent plea for change' Kirkus
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Abiodun Adeniji
Ben Okri: The Quest for an African Utopia investigates the unethical cornucopia of myth and realism in Okri’s prose fiction. Ben Okri’s recent works have been excoriated as an excursion…
Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this novel combines fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the present, to convey Nigerian peasant life in a changing world…
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Five contemporary writers respond to Guston's work through imaginative fiction that proves his continual influence on today's creative culture
In the short story collection Five Stories for Philip Guston, edited…
Professor Rosemary Alice Gray (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with…
Okri brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials, where haiku and story meet.
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic.
Twelve of Ben Okri’s most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom.
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own.
Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Based on decades of honing his art, this stimulating booklet gives a glimpse…
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An anthology of inspiring political poetry compiled by award-winning poet and novelist Ben Okri.
These poems range across a wide variety of subjects, from the autobiographical to the philosophical, from war to love, from nature to the difficulty of truly seeing.
An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions.
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker-winner Ben Okri.
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Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed…
An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the Warrior King, Sinuhe written by…
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Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.
"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Phoenix House, an imprint of Orion Books, in 1996; paperback reprint edition published in 2014 by Head of Zeus, Ltd."--Title page verso.
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A collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona…
In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her…
"Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed. An epic adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the Warrior King, Sinuhe that captures the…
An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winning author.
There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far-art in all…
A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to discover the real Arcadia.
This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty…
A collection of poems reflecting Okri’s concerns about Africa’s colossal economic and political problems.
Whether the subject is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri’s lyrical, poetic and…
The title it written in reverse on the cover.
The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country.
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"First published in the UK in 2021 by Head of Zeus Ltd."
