Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. [1] Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, [2] [3] Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. [4]

本·奥克瑞 爵士， OBE （Sir Ben Okri；1959年3月15日 —）， 尼日利亚 诗人及小说家。 出生於 明納，早年在 伦敦 度过，1968年随家人返回尼日利亚。 后来又回到英国，在 艾赛克斯大学 从事研究工作。 1997年和2002年分别成为 威斯敏斯特大学 和艾赛克斯大学的荣誉博士，2001年获 大英帝国勋章。 [1] 1980年出版的首部小说《花与影》令奥克瑞获得了国际声誉。 他最著名的作品《饥饿的路》获得1991年 布克奖。 此外，他还获得 英联邦作家奖 、 阿加汗小说奖 、以及 世界 …

Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, aphorist, and playwright. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction.

2025年3月11日 · Ben Okri is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who used magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth. His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991.

本·奥克瑞（Ben Okri，1959年-）用英语写作，被认为是非洲最重要的后现代和后殖民作家之一。 他出生在尼日利亚中西部城市明纳，两岁时随父亲搬到纽约，9岁时回到尼日利亚。

Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for New Dreams he breaks new ground in an unusual collection of linked essays, which address such diverse themes as childhood, self-censorship, the role of beauty, the importance of education and the real…

Okri, who served as poetry editor for West Africa magazine, has published numerous books, including the novels The Last Gift of the Master Artists (Other Press, 2022) and The Freedom Artist (Akashic Books, 2019); the short story collection Prayer for the Living (Akashic Books, 2019); the prose-poetry hybrids Tales of Freedom (Rider, 2009) and A ...

Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s latest novel, this tale of the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade restores a lost history to Okri’s Nigerian homeland.

Ben Okri 1959 - / South African March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Having spent his early childhood in London, he and his family returned to Nigeria in 1968.

Ben Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction.