- Sir Ben
Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15
March 1959) is a Nigerian-born
British poet and novelist.
Considered one of the
foremost African authors...
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Natalie Okri (born 20
November 1998) is a
British singer and songwriter. She rose to
prominence in 2009
after her
performance at Britain’s Got Talent.[deprecated...
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Dangerous Love is a 1996
novel by Ben
Okri set in
Lagos of the 1970s. The
novel is a
remake of an
earlier book, The
Landscapes Within (1981). It is set...
- have
appeared at the
salon to read
their work to live
audiences include Ben
Okri,
Lionel Shriver,
Elizabeth Day, A.L. Kennedy,
William Boyd,
Graham Swift...
- Wole Soyinka,
Nigeria can
present a
Nobel Prize winner for literature. Ben
Okri won the
prestigious Booker Prize in 1991;
Chinua Achebe did the same in 2007...
- UK 1990 A. S.
Byatt Possession Historiographic metafiction UK 1991 Ben
Okri The
Famished Road
Magic realism NGR 1992
Michael Ondaatje The
English Patient...
- The
Famished Road is a
novel by
Nigerian author Ben
Okri, the
first book in a
trilogy that
continues with
Songs of
Enchantment (1993) and
Infinite Riches...
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featuring Okri's words on the wall, as well as
footage of African-American
writer Ishmael Reed. At the show's opening, Reed
performed and
Okri recited a...
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ultimus < *h₂ol-t-m̥o. OIr.
ollam 'master poet' < *oltamo < *h₂ol-t-m̥),
okris 'mountain' (< *h₂ok-r-i, cf. Lat.
ocris 'mountain', OIr.
ochair 'edge' <...
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Magical realism in the
fiction of
Salman Rushdie,
Latife Tekin, and Ben
Okri.
Department of
English (Ph.D. thesis). Buffalo, NY:
State University of New...
