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Ben Okri

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Ben Okri, 1959 - Nigerian novelist, Ben Okri was born in Minna. After his birth, his family moved to England so his father could study law. At the age of seven, his family returned to Nigeria and his father practiced in Lagos. His childhood was influenced by the Nigerian civil war. He was constantly being withdrawn from schools so most of his education was at home. After failing to be placed in a university, Okri began writing articles on social and political issues. Most of them were not published, but he began writing short stories based on these articles and they began finding their way into women's journals and evening papers. In 1978, he moved back to England where he studied comparative literature at Essex University but was forced to leave without a degree because of a lack of funds. He was a poetry editor of West Africa and worked also for the BBC. At nineteen, he finished his first novel "Flowers and Shadows" and it was published in 1980. The story attacked corruption in newly independent Nigeria and tells of a successful businessman whose jealous relatives make his life difficult. Okri's second novel, "The Landscapes Within" (1981), traces the adventures of a young, poor painter in Lagos. This novel was followed by two collections of short stories, "Incidents at the Shrine" (1986), and "Starts of the New Curfew" (1988). Several of the stories tell of the Biafran War from a child's eyes. The novel "The Famished Road" (1991) tells the story of a character who must choose between the pain of mortality and the land of the spirits. Okri's next novel, "Songs of Enchantment" (1993), continued with the mythical and poetical view of the world. "An African Elegy" (1992), is a collection of poems with classical themes. Okri has won several awards, which include the Booker Prize (1991), the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa (1987), the Paris Review Aga Khan prize for fiction, the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize, and the Premio Grinzane Cavour. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Sultens vej… (mere)
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Sultens vej 2,297 eksemplarer, 38 anmeldelser
Astonishing the Gods 295 eksemplarer, 3 anmeldelser
Fortryllelsens sange 269 eksemplarer, 5 anmeldelser
Farlig kærlighed 217 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Uendelige rigdomme 179 eksemplarer
Stars of the New Curfew 145 eksemplarer, 2 anmeldelser
Stjernebogen: En magisk fortælling om kærlighed og fornyelse 140 eksemplarer, 4 anmeldelser
In Arcadia 100 eksemplarer, 2 anmeldelser
The Freedom Artist 98 eksemplarer, 10 anmeldelser
Incidents at the Shrine 79 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
The Age of Magic 75 eksemplarer, 3 anmeldelser
A Way of Being Free 65 eksemplarer
Mental Fight 55 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
An African Elegy 54 eksemplarer
A Prayer for the Living 47 eksemplarer, 12 anmeldelser
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