Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist, born on 15 March 1959. He is considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In 1991 his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize, and he was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist
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is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri
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