Ben Okri

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri  ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli  March bɛɣu pinaanu dali, yuuni 1959) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ  Nigerian-born British poet mini yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi ."Ben Okri", British Council, Writers Directory. . O nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ka o nyɛ gbansabila tingbana sasabiri ŋun yuli du pam di yi kana sabbu polo,"Ben Okri", Editors, The Guardian, 22 July 2008. Okri nyɛla bɛ ni mali so n maŋisiri sasabiri kamani  Salman Rushdie n-ti pahi  Gabriel García Márquez.Dorsman, Robert (2000), "Ben Okri", Poetry International Web. . Yuuni  1991 ni, o salinwaɣinli buku din yuli daa booni  The Famished Road  nyɛla din daa di kpaŋmaŋ pini yuli daa booni Booker Prize..

Biography
Move to England, 1978

Literary career

Influences

O kpaŋmaŋ pina nima

 Yuuni 1987: Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book) – Incidents at the Shrine
 Yuuni 1987: Aga Khan Prize for Fiction – The Dream Vendor's August
 Yuuni 1988: Guardian Fiction Prize – Stars of the New Curfew (shortlisted)
 Yuuni 1991 hali ni yuuni 1993: Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts (FCCA), Trinity College, Cambridge
 Yuuni 1991: Booker Prize – The Famished Road
 Yuuni 1993: Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize – The Famished Road
 Yuuni 1994: Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) -The Famished Road
 Yuuni 1995: Crystal Award (World Economic Forum)
 Yuuni 1997: Honorary Doctorate of Literature, awarded by University of Westminster
 Yuuni 1999:  (Italy) – Dangerous Love
 Yuuni 2002: Honorary Doctorate of Literature, awarded by University of Essex
 Yuuni 2003: Chosen as one of 100 Great Black Britons100 Great Black Britons  website.
 Yuuni 2004: Honorary Doctor of Literature, awarded by University of Exeter
 Yuuni 2008: International Literary Award Novi Sad (International Novi Sad Literature Festival, Serbia)
 Yuuni 2009: Honorary Doctorate of Utopia, awarded by Universiteit voor het Algemeen Belang, Belgium"Honorary Degree in Utopia for Ben Okri - Antwerp, Belgium 2010", Youtube, 10 March 2015.
 Yuuni 2010: Honorary Doctorate, awarded by School of Oriental and African Studies
 Yuuni 2010: Honorary Doctorate of Arts, awarded by the University of Bedfordshire
 Yuuni 2014: Honorary Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford
 Yuuni 2014: Bad Sex in Fiction Award, Literary Review"Bad Sex in Fiction: Ben Okri scoops 2014 prize", BBC News, 3 December 2014.

O tuma nima

 Salin waɣila 
 Flowers and Shadows (Harlow: Longman, yuuni 1980)
 The Landscapes Within (Harlow: Longman, yuuni 1981)
 The Famished Road (London: Jonathan Cape, yuuni 1991)
 Songs of Enchantment (London: Jonathan Cape, yuuni 1993)
 Astonishing the Gods (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, yuuni 1995)
 Dangerous Love (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, yuuni 1996)
 Infinite Riches (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, yuuni 1998)
 In Arcadia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, yuuni  2002)
 Starbook (London: Rider Books, yuuni 2007)
 The Age of Magic (London: Head of Zeus, yuuni 2014)
 The Freedom Artist (London: Head of Zeus, yuuni 2019)

 Every Leaf a Hallelujah (London: Head of Zeus, yuuni  2021)
 The Last Gift of the Master Artists (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, yuuni 2022)

 Poetry, essays and short story collections 
 Incidents at the Shrine (short stories; London: Heinemann, yuuni 1986)
 Stars of the New Curfew (short stories; London: Secker & Warburg, yuuni 1988)
 An African Elegy (poetry; London: Jonathan Cape, yuuni 1992)
 Birds of Heaven (essays; London: Phoenix House, yuuni 1996)
 A Way of Being Free (essays; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: yuuni  1997; London: Phoenix House, yuuni 1997 ni yaha)
 Mental Fight (poetry: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, yuuni 1999; London: Phoenix House, ni yuuni  1999 ni yaha)
 Tales of Freedom (short stories; London: Rider & Co., yuuni 2009)
 A Time for New Dreams (essays; London: Rider & Co., yuuni 2011)
 Wild (poetry; London: Rider & Co., yuuni  2012)
 The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling (West Hoathly: Clairview Books, Ltd, yuuni 2015)
 The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age, with paintings by Rosemary Clunie (Apollo/Head of Zeus, yuuni 2017)
 Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the many (as editor; London: Hodder & Stoughton, yuuni 2018)
 Prayer for the Living: Stories (London: Head of Zeus, yuuni 2019)
 A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn (London: Head of Zeus, yuuni  2021)
 Tiger Work (London: Apollo, an imprint of Head of Zeus, yuuni 2023)

 Sinii nima 
 N – The Madness of Reason (feature film, directed by Peter Krüger, yuuni 2014)"N – The Madness of Reason" ,  Blinkerfilm, 9 March 2015.

Online fiction


Kundivihira

 Karimbu nim yaha 
 Irene, Michael Oshoke. 2015. Re-inventing oral tradition in Ben Okri's trilogy : The Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches. Anglia Ruskin University, doctoral dissertation.

External links
 Official website
 Ben Okri's AALBC.com Author Profile
 Ben Okri's official Facebook Page
 Ben Okri's MySpace page
 Ben Okri's official page on the Booker Prizes website.
 Full length You Tube video of Ben Okri winning the 1991 Booker Prize.
 The Ben Okri Bibliography – an extensive bibliography of works by and about Okri, also including a short biography and an introduction to his work.
 Audio: Ben Okri in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum, 19 July 2009.
 Ben Okri on RSA Audio, 4 April 2011.
 Simon Joseph Jones, "Soul Man" (interview), High Profiles, 31 October 2002.

 Ben Okri: An extended film interview with transcripts for the Why Are We Here? documentary series.
 Réhab Abdelghany, "A Question of Power: Ben Okri's 'Meditations on Greatness' at Africa Writes", Africa in Words, 24 August 2015.

O yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi nima
 "O That Abstract Garden", a poem by Ben Okri..
 "The Awakening Age", a poem by Ben Okri.
 "Draw", a poem by Ben Okri.
 "Lines in Potentis", a poem by Ben Okri. .
 "Children of the Dream", a poem by Ben Okri.
 "Dancing With Change", a poem by Ben Okri.
 "I sing a new freedom", a poem by Ben Okri.
 "As clouds pass above our heads...", a poem by Ben Okri.

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