Ben Okri

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born

Sir
15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and
novelist.[1] Considered one of the foremost African Ben Okri
OBE FRSL
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] In 1991, his novel The Famished Road
won the Booker Prize.[5] Okri was knighted at the
2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.[6]

Biography

Early years and education

Born 15 March 1959
Ben Okri is a member of the Urhobo people; his father
Minna, Nigeria
was Urhobo, and his mother was half-Igbo ("from a
Occupation Writer
royal family").[1][7] He was born in Minna in west
central Nigeria to Grace and Silver Okri in 1959.[7] His Nationality Nigeria
father, Silver, moved his family to London when Okri UK

was less than two years old[3] so that he could study Genre Fiction, essays, poetry
law.[8] Okri thus spent his earliest years in London and Literary Postmodernism,
attended primary school in Peckham.[2] In 1966, Silver movement Postcolonialism
moved his family back to Nigeria,[9] where he Notable The Famished Road (1991), A
practised law in Lagos, providing free or discounted works Way of Being Free (1997),
services for those who could not afford it.[7] After Starbook (2007), A Time for
attending schools in Ibadan and Ikenne, Okri began his New Dreams (2011)
secondary education at Urhobo College at Warri,[10][11] Notable Booker Prize 1991
awards
in 1968, when he was the youngest in his class.[9] His
exposure to the Nigerian civil war[12] and a culture in Website
which his peers at the time claimed to have had visions benokri.co.uk (https://benokri.co.uk/)
of spirits[3] provided inspiration for Okri's fiction.

At the age of 14, after being rejected for admission to a short university programme in physics because of
his youth and lack of qualifications, Okri experienced a revelation that poetry was his chosen calling.[13]
He began writing articles on social and political issues, but these never found a publisher.[13] He then
wrote short stories based on those articles, and some were published in women's journals and evening
papers.[13] Okri has said that his criticism of the government in some of this early work led to his name
being placed on a death list, and necessitated his departure from the country.[3]

Move to England, 1978

In 1978, he moved back to England and studied comparative literature at Essex University with a grant
from the Nigerian government.[14][13] But when funding for his scholarship fell through, Okri found
himself homeless, sometimes living in parks and sometimes with friends. He has called this period "very,
very important" to his work: "I wrote and wrote in that period... If anything [the desire to write] actually
intensified."[13]

Okri's success as a writer began when he published his debut novel, Flowers and Shadows, in 1980, at the
age of 21.[1] From 1983 to 1986, he served as poetry editor of West Africa magazine,[9] and he regularly
contributed to the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985, continuing to publish throughout this
period.[1]

His reputation as an author was secured when his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for
Fiction in 1991,[1][15] making him the prize's youngest ever winner at 32.[16] The novel was written
during the time from 1988 that Okri lived in a Notting Hill flat that he rented from publisher friend
Margaret Busby,[17][18] and he has said:

"Something about my writing changed round about that time. I acquired a kind of
tranquillity. I had been striving for something in my tone of voice as a writer—it was there
that it finally came together.... That flat is also where I wrote the short stories that became
[1988's] Stars of the New Curfew."[14]

In 1997, Okri was elected vice-president of the English Centre for International PEN and in 1999 was
appointed a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre.[1][19]

On 26 April 2012, he was appointed vice-president of the Caine Prize for African Writing, having been on
the advisory committee and associated with the prize since it was established 13 years earlier.[20]

Okri was appointed as a vice-president of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2022.[21]

Literary career
Since the 1980 publication of Flowers and Shadows, Okri has
risen to international acclaim, and he often is described as one of
Africa's leading writers.[2][3]

His best known work, The Famished Road, which won the 1991
Booker Prize,[22] along with Songs of Enchantment (1993)[23][24] Quote from Okri's Mental Fight on
the Memorial Gates, London
and Infinite Riches (1998) make up a trilogy that follows Azaro, a
spirit-child narrator, through the social and political turmoil of an
African nation reminiscent of Okri's remembrance of war-torn Nigeria.[1]
Okri's work is particularly difficult to categorise. It has been widely called postmodern,[25] but some
scholars have noted that the seeming realism with which he depicts the spirit-world challenges this
categorisation. If Okri does attribute reality to a spiritual world, it is claimed, then his "allegiances are not
postmodern [because] he still believes that there is something ahistorical or transcendental conferring
legitimacy on some, and not other, truth-claims."[25] Alternative characterisations of Okri's work suggest
an allegiance to Yoruba folklore,[26] New Ageism,[25][27] spiritual realism,[27] magical realism,[28]
visionary materialism,[28] and existentialism.[29]

Against these analyses, Okri has always rejected the categorisation of his work as magical realism,
claiming that this categorisation is the result of laziness by critics and likening it to the observation that "a
horse ... has four legs and a tail. That doesn't describe it."[3] He has instead described his fiction as
obeying a kind of "dream logic"[12] and said that it is often preoccupied with the "philosophical
conundrum ... what is reality?"[13] insisting that:

I grew up in a tradition where there are simply more dimensions to reality: legends and
myths and ancestors and spirits and death ... Which brings the question: what is reality?
Everyone's reality is different. For different perceptions of reality we need a different
language. We like to think that the world is rational and precise and exactly how we see it,
but something erupts in our reality which makes us sense that there's more to the fabric of
life. I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is
looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute
reality.[12]

Okri has noted the effect of personal choices: "Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night,
beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world."[30]

As well as novels, Okri's published books include collections of poetry, essays and short stories. His short
fiction has been described as more realistic and less fantastic than his novels, but it also depicts Africans
in communion with spirits,[1] while his poetry and nonfiction have a more overt political tone, focusing
on the potential of Africa and the world to overcome the problems of modernity.[1][31]

Okri has also written plays and film scripts, such as the text to Peter Krüger's film N – The Madness of
Reason, which won the 2015 Ensor Award for Best Film.[32] In 2018, Okri adapted Albert Camus's
novella The Outsider as a play for the Print Room at The Coronet Theatre.[33]

In April 2019, Okri gave the keynote address at the second Berlin African Book Festival, curated by Tsitsi
Dangarembga.[34]

Okri's volume of collected poems, A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn, was published in 2021, its
title inspired by a line in Wole Soyinka's poem "Death in the Dawn": "May you never walk / when the
road waits, famished."[35]
Alongside his writing, Okri has maintained an interest in visual art since his youth, and in 2023, he
collaborated with colourist painter Rosemary Clunie in Firedreams, at the Bomb Factory, Marylebone, an
exhiition of "WordArt" that featured large-scale paintings and sculptural obstructions.[36][37] Okri and
Clunie, his long-time friend, had previously brought together their paintings and stories in the 2017 book
The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age.[32][38]

Influences
Okri has described his work as influenced as much by the philosophical texts on his father's bookshelves
as by literature,[13] and cites the influence of Francis Bacon and Michel de Montaigne on his A Time for
New Dreams.[39] His literary influences include Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream,[12] and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.[13]
Okri's 1999 epic poem, Mental Fight, is named after a quotation from the poet William Blake's "And did
those feet ...",[40] and critics have noted a close relationship between Blake and Okri's poetry.[28]

Okri also was influenced by the oral tradition of his people and, particularly, by his mother's storytelling:
"If my mother wanted to make a point, she wouldn't correct me, she'd tell me a story."[12] His firsthand
experiences of civil war in Nigeria are said to have inspired many of his works.[12]

On the final day of the 2021 COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow, Okri wrote about the existential threat
posed by the climate crisis and how ill‑equipped humans seem to confront the prospect of their self-
inflicted extinction. Indeed, Okri says: "We have to find a new art and a new psychology to penetrate the
apathy and the denial that are preventing us making the changes that are inevitable if our world is to
survive."[41]

Honours and awards

Okri was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 Birthday Honours for
services to literature[42][43] and knighted in the 2023 Birthday Honours, also for services to literature.[44]

1987: Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book) – Incidents at the Shrine[45]
1987: Aga Khan Prize for Fiction – The Dream Vendor's August[46]
1988: Guardian Fiction Prize – Stars of the New Curfew (shortlisted)[47]
1991–1993: Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts (FCCA), Trinity College, Cambridge[48]
1991: Booker Prize – The Famished Road[49]
1993: Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize – The Famished Road[50]
1994: Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) -The Famished Road[45]
1995: Crystal Award (World Economic Forum)[51]
1997: Honorary Doctorate of Literature, awarded by University of Westminster[52]
1999: Premio Palmi (Italy) – Dangerous Love[53]
2002: Honorary Doctorate of Literature, awarded by University of Essex[54]
2003: Chosen as one of 100 Great Black Britons[55]
2004: Honorary Doctor of Literature, awarded by University of Exeter[56]
 2008: International Literary Award Novi Sad (International Novi Sad Literature Festival,
Serbia)[57]
2009: Honorary Doctorate of Utopia, awarded by Universiteit voor het Algemeen Belang,
Belgium[58]
2010: Honorary Doctorate, awarded by School of Oriental and African Studies[59]
2010: Honorary Doctorate of Arts, awarded by the University of Bedfordshire[60]
2014: Honorary Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford[61]
2014: Bad Sex in Fiction Award, Literary Review[62][63]

Works

Novels
Flowers and Shadows (Harlow: Longman, 1980)[64]
The Landscapes Within (Harlow: Longman, 1981)[65]
The Famished Road (London: Jonathan Cape, 1991)[66]
Songs of Enchantment (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993)[67]
Astonishing the Gods (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)[68]
Dangerous Love (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996)[69]
Infinite Riches (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)[70]
In Arcadia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)[71]
Starbook (London: Rider Books, 2007)[7]
The Age of Magic (London: Head of Zeus, 2014)[72]
The Freedom Artist (London: Head of Zeus, 2019)[73]

Every Leaf a Hallelujah (London: Head of Zeus, 2021)[74]

The Last Gift of the Master Artists (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022)[75]

Poetry, essays and short story collections

Incidents at the Shrine (short stories; London: Heinemann, 1986)[76]
Stars of the New Curfew (short stories; London: Secker & Warburg, 1988)[77]
An African Elegy (poetry; London: Jonathan Cape, 1992)[78]
Birds of Heaven (essays; London: Phoenix House, 1996)[79]
A Way of Being Free (essays; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1997; London: Phoenix
House, 1997)[80]
Mental Fight (poetry: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999; London: Phoenix House,
1999)[81]
Tales of Freedom (short stories; London: Rider & Co., 2009)[82]
A Time for New Dreams (essays; London: Rider & Co., 2011)[83]
Wild (poetry; London: Rider & Co., 2012)[84]
The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling (West Hoathly: Clairview Books, Ltd, 2015)[85]
 The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age, with paintings by Rosemary Clunie (Apollo/Head of
Zeus, 2017)[86][87]
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the many (as editor; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018)[88]
Prayer for the Living: Stories (London: Head of Zeus, 2019)[89][90]
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn (London: Head of Zeus, 2021)[91][92]
Tiger Work (London: Apollo, an imprint of Head of Zeus, 2023)[93]

Film
N – The Madness of Reason (feature film, directed by Peter Krüger, 2014)[94]

Online fiction
"A Wrinkle In The Realm" (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/a-wrinkle-in-th
e-realm). The New Yorker. 1 February 2021.

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Further reading
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 (https://benokri.co.uk/)
Ben Okri's AALBC.com Author Profile (https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=
Ben+Okri)
Ben Okri's official Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Okri/6691604261
6)
Ben Okri's MySpace page (https://www.myspace.com/ben_okri)
Ben Okri's official page on the Booker Prizes website (https://thebookerprizes.com/the-book
er-library/authors/ben-okri).
Full length You Tube video of Ben Okri winning the 1991 Booker Prize (https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=zMJI8cRcbAQ).
The Ben Okri Bibliography (http://www.ulg.ac.be/facphl/uer/d-german/L3/boindex.html) – 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 (https://w
ww.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/07/090720_theforum_190709.shtml) The
Forum, 19 July 2009.
Ben Okri on RSA Audio (https://web.archive.org/web/20120119011208/http://www.thersa.or
g/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/a-time-for-new-dreams), 4 April 2011.
 Simon Joseph Jones, "Soul Man" (https://highprofiles.info/interview/ben-okri/) (interview),
High Profiles, 31 October 2002.

Ben Okri: An extended film interview with transcripts for the Why Are We Here?
documentary series (https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/ben-okri/).
Réhab Abdelghany, "A Question of Power: Ben Okri's 'Meditations on Greatness' at Africa
Writes" (https://africainwords.com/2015/08/24/a-question-of-power-ben-okris-meditations-on
-greatness-at-africa-writes/), Africa in Words, 24 August 2015.

Selected poems
"O That Abstract Garden" (https://riderbooks.tumblr.com/post/3100139249/new-year-poem-f
rom-ben-okri-o-that-abstract-garden), a poem by Ben Okri.Archived (https://web.archive.org/
web/20130112232126/http://riderbooks.tumblr.com/post/3100139249/new-year-poem-from-
ben-okri-o-that-abstract-garden) 12 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
"The Awakening Age" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130112215218/http://www.oxfam.org.u
k/coolplanet/ontheline/explore/poetry/benokri.htm), a poem by Ben Okri.
"Draw" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2039260.stm), a poem by Ben Okri.
"Lines in Potentis" (http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/ben_okri.html), a poem by Ben
Okri. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20171114154002/http://www2.tate.org.uk/40arti
sts40days/ben_okri.html) 14 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
"Children of the Dream" (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/aug/21/poetry.usa), a
poem by Ben Okri.
"Dancing With Change" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120426203857/http://odewire.com/5
4290/dancing-with-change.html), a poem by Ben Okri.
"I sing a new freedom" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130112232352/http://www.rhgdigital.
co.uk/blogs/ebury/?p=196), a poem by Ben Okri.
"As clouds pass above our heads..." (https://web.archive.org/web/20130112232126/http://w
ww.rhgdigital.co.uk/blogs/ebury/?p=349), a poem by Ben Okri.

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