Question: Are Ben Okri and Nicholas Evans both novelists?

full_context: Document 1: Kenzaburō Ōe: Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎 , Ōe Kenzaburō , born 31 January 1935) is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".
Document 2: Nicholas Evans: 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".
Document 3: Charles Evans Jr.: Charles Evans Jr. is an American film producer and documentary film director. He produced Johnny Depp's first directorial effort, "The Brave". He was one of four producers on the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator", although his production credit was controversial. Evans is the nephew of former motion picture studio executive Robert Evans, and the son of fashion industry executive and motion picture producer Charles Evans.
Document 4: The Famished Road: 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.
Document 5: Nicky Evans (footballer): Nicholas John "Nicky" Evans (born 6 July 1958) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a forward.
Document 6: Dangerous Love (novel): 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.
Document 7: Steve Evans (writer): Stephen Burgess Evans (born April 1, 1963 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is an award-winning American investigative journalist, author, communications professional and film historian. A Poynter Institute for Media Studies Fellow, Evans has received first place awards for feature writing from the Virginia Press Association and Tennessee Press Association. He has also received numerous awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for excellence in academic writing and publishing in higher education. His writing and photography have appeared in more than 50 print publications, including "The Wall Street Journal", the "Los Angeles Times," "The Richmond Times-Dispatch", the "Miami Herald" and "The Washington Post", "as well as scores of online publications. Evans' film commentary appears on DVDVerdict.com, RottenTomatoes.com, CinemaUprising.blogspot.com, IMDb.com, a"nd has been featured on The Criterion Collection homepage, among many other online sites devoted to film appreciation and cinema history"."
Document 8: Chinua Achebe: Chinua Achebe ( , born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958), often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.
Document 9: Christopher Evans (theologian): Born in Birmingham in 1909, Evans attended King Edward's School, renowned for its track record of producing theologians and Christian leaders, such as Edward Benson, once Archbishop of Canterbury. His classmates at the school at the time include the future Conservative MP Enoch Powell. After gaining a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he became influenced by Sir Edwyn Clement Hoskyns who encouraged emphasis on literary forms used in the Bible, including songs, proverbs and stories. He later spent a year being taught by Michael Ramsey, at Lincoln Theological College before serving four years in parochial ministry in Southampton.
Document 10: Chris Tally Evans: Chris Tally Evans is a British disabled artist, actor, director and writer. He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as a performer and graduated from Trinity College, London with a teaching diploma. Evans' interest in theatre and music started as a teenager when he joined West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and West Glamorgan Youth Arts Company as an actor, dancer and musician. He was lead guitarist for the West Glamorgan Youth Arts Company production of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall and London's Wembley Arena and was a dancer in Vaughan Williams' "Job" at a performance attended by Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981. In both these productions he shared the stage with Russell T Davies, writer and producer of Dr Who. By the age of 14 he was playing the guitar semi-professionally in pubs and clubs in the Swansea area, as well as for a number of theatre shows. For two years at this time he was lead guitarist in the backing band of a very young Catherine Zeta-Jones. Later Evans played in a number of bands including the electric folk band Straight From the Wood who chalked up memorable appearances at Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Gwyl Pontardawe Festival and the Village Pump Folk Festival in Trowbridge. Evans has had both poetry and prose published, directed many theatre productions and has performed himself in the United States, Canada, Poland and New Zealand. His film work was exhibited at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, in 2011. The Arts Council of Wales granted Evans a Major Creative Wales Award in 2009 and he performed work created at this time at the InterACT Disability Arts Festival in Auckland, New Zealand. His unlimited commission, "Turning Points", was shown in the Southbank Centre, London during the 2012 Paralympic Games and then went on to be exhibited in Doha, Qatar in 2013 as part of the Middle East’s first ever disability arts festival. He has featured in HTV’s award winning documentary, One in Six, on BBC 2W’s The Arts Show, and wrote and performed a 5-part series for BBC Radio 4 called "My Mile of the River". His March 2014 production, "21st Century Dinosaurs", with a visually impaired cast, was reviewed favourably by Sarah Finch of National Theatre Wales. He wrote, performed and made video content for National Theatre Wales/Celf o Gwmpas' Big Democracy Project which responded to the question "Are disabled people an easy target for the cuts?" in June 2015. In 2015 he was appointed a National Adviser to the Arts Council of Wales.
Document 11: Starbook: Starbook, subtitled ""A Magical Tale of Love and Regeneration"," is a 2007 novel by Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri.
Document 12: Nicholas Evans (linguist): Nicholas Evans (born 1956 in Los Angeles, USA) is an Australian linguist.
Document 13: Ben Okri: 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.
Document 14: Salman Rushdie: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, FRSL ( ; Kashmiri: अहमद सलमान रुशदी , ; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.
Document 15: Nicholas Evans (artist): 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.
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