Question: Are Ben Okri and Nicholas Evans both novelists?
Context: Nicholas Evans (born 1956 in Los Angeles, USA) is an Australian linguist. Dangerous Love is a 1996 novel by Ben Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s.  The novel is a reworking of an earlier book, "The Landscapes Within".  The book is more conventional and realist than Okri's previous works.  The subject concerns love, corruption and memories of the Biafran War in Nigeria. Paint the Change is a global street art project that uses public art and community dialogue to discuss social justice issues.  The project's latest mural is a monumental piece in Shoreditch, East London, featuring words by Ben Okri and art by Ben Eine to commemorate the victims and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in London.  Paint the Change is also the umbrella project for the global street art and human rights project Education Is Not A Crime. Nicholas Evans (10 January 1907 – 5 February 2004) was a self-taught Welsh artist from Aberdare, in the Cynon Valley.  He was known best in the art world as Nick Evans, with which name his work was signed. Into the Widening World is a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories.  It was written by many authors including: Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist.  Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. The Horse Whisperer is a 1995 novel by English author Nicholas Evans.  The book was his debut novel, and gained significant success, becoming the 10th best selling novel in the United States in 1995, selling over 15 million copies.  This also makes it one of the best-selling books of all time. Starbook, subtitled ""A Magical Tale of Love and Regeneration"," is a 2007 novel by Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri. Nicholas Evans (born 26 July 1950) is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist.  Evans was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove School before studying at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.  He also served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas.  He then studied journalism and worked as a newspaper reporter and television screenwriter.  He lives in Devon.  He has a son, Max Evans, who is head of geography at Preston Manor High School, and a daughter, Lauren.  He also has another son, Harry, from a relationship he had with Jane Hewland, the TV producer known for "Network 7" and "GamesMaster". The Famished Road is the Booker Prize-winning novel written by Nigerian author Ben Okri.  The novel, published in 1991, follows Azaro, an "abiku" or spirit child, living in an unnamed, most likely Nigerian, city.  The novel employs a unique narrative style incorporating the spirit world with the "real" world in what some have classified as magical realism.  Others have labeled it African Traditional Religion realism.  Still others choose to simply call the novel fantasy literature.  The book exploits the belief in the coexistence of the spiritual and material worlds that is a defining aspect of traditional African life.
Answer: yes