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 . O nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ka o nyɛ gbansabila tingbana sasabiri ŋun yuli du pam di yi kana sabbu polo, Okri nyɛla bɛ ni mali so n maŋisiri sasabiri kamani  Salman Rushdie n-ti pahi  Gabriel García Márquez. 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 Britons
* 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
* 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]]*

## 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 (novel)|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)

### Online fiction
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## 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.