Ben Okri

Ben Okri  () adalah seorang penyair dan novelis asal Nigeria-Inggris."Ben Okri", British Council, Writers Directory. . Okri dianggap sebagai salah satu penulis Afrika terkemuka yang mengusung unsur pascamodernisme dan pascakolonialisme,"Ben Okri", Editors, The Guardian, 22 July 2008.Stefaan Anrys, "Interview with Booker Prize laureate Ben Okri", Mondiaal Nieuws, 26 August 2009. dan telah disandingkan dengan penulis seperti Salman Rushdie dan Gabriel García Márquez.Robert Dorsman, "Ben Okri", Poetry International Web, 2000. . Pada tahun 1991, Okri memenangkan Booker Prize dengan novelnya berjudul, The Famished Road.

 Karya 

 Flowers and Shadows (1980)
 The Landscapes Within (1982)
 Incidents at the Shrine (1986)
 Stars of New Curfew (1988)
 An African Elegy (1992)
 Song of Enchantment (1993)
 Astonishing the Gods (1995)
 Infinite Riches (1998)
 In Arcadia (2002)
 The Age of Magic (2014).

 Referensi 

Pranala luar
 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 Ben Okri. Also includes 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.
 "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.
 "O That Abstract Garden" , a poem by Ben Okri.
 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.

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