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Okri, Ben - English
URL: http://www.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/15733

Apart from The Famished Road, his ghost-child trilogy featuring the young boy Azaro consists of Songs of Enchantment, and was recently concluded with Infinite Riches. Critics have responded enthusiastically to Ben Okri’s work. Take for instance Dutch critic Ed van Eeden who, writing on Infinite Riches, tipped Okri as a future Nobel Prize winner: ‘Once you’ve finished the final part of the Ghost-child trilogy, after days of feverish reading, you notice the uprooting and bewildering influence of Okri’s dream prose.

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Okri, Ben & Book Talk Forum Frigate - English
URL: http://jollyroger.com/zz/yauthord/Okri,Benhall/shakespeare1.html

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Okri, Ben & FAVORITE AUTHORS

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Okri, Ben - Vita - German
URL: http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/okri.htm

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TALKING WITH BEN OKRI - English
URL: http://emeagwali.com/nigeria/biography/ben-okri-19jul92.html

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Ben Okri - English
URL: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth82&state=index=o

Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.

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MSN Encarta - Okri, Ben - Italian
URL: http://it.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_221506364/Okri_Ben.html

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Okri Ben - English
URL: http://www.bookfinder.us/Literature___Fiction/Authors_A-Z/Okri__Ben.html

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Book Stores - Okri Ben

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Okri, Ben - English
URL: http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/O/okriben/1.html

Nigerian novelist, poet, and short-story writer, who achieved international recognition with his third novel, The Famished Road (1991), which won Britain's top literary award, the Booker Prize. Born in Minna, a small town in central Nigeria, Okri was educated at Urhobo College, Warri, Nigeria, and then in England, where he attended the University of Essex and studied comparative literature. By the time he became a student at Essex, Okri had been writing for several years and had published his first novel, Flowers and Shadows (1980). During his three years at Essex, he published a second novel, The Landscapes Within (1982).

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Literary Encyclopedia: Okri, Ben - English
URL: http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3405

The novels, poems and essays of the Nigerian-born author Ben Okri offer a challenge to received notions of literary convention and form. His reputation was consolidated in 1991 when The Famished Road – the first novel in a sequence of that title – won the Booker McConnell Prize for Fiction, but is yet to be matched by an equivalent critical understanding, or a considered body of commentary that might sustain it. Okri has been dubbed a “Magic Realist”, a term that does not really fit him. Meanwhile, the Ghanaian critic Ato Quayson has expounded his work via a revolutionary concept of “interdiscursivity”, the fusion of literary and oral influences within a nation-based text. More conventionally, the British critic Gerald Moore has construed his fiction with the help of Mikhail Bakhin's notion of “dialogism” — of competing voices within a given work. In actuality, Okri transcends all such nostrums. The reasons for this state of affairs are complex, and may emerge in what follows.

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Okri, Ben - English
URL: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0034213.html

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Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, broadcaster, and journalist. His novel The Famished Road won the UK Booker Prize in 1991. Short-story collections include Incidents at the Shrine (1987) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988). His first book of poems, An African Elegy (1992), is based on contemporary Africa. More recent work includes Astonishing the Gods (1995) and a collection of essays A Way of Being (1997).

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Ben Okri (1959- ) - English
URL: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/nigeria/okri/bennett1a.html

Article provides an overview to the works, themes, and critical reception of Ben Okri

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Àííà Åãîðîâà. Ëàçàðü âîñêðåñ â Àôðèêå - Russian
URL: http://www.africana.ru/konkurs/raboti/Egorova/BenOkri.htm

Íà ðóññêîì âûøëà êíèãà - áóêåðîâñêèé ëàóðåàò "Ãîëîäíàÿ äîðîãà" íèãåðèéöà Áåíà Îêðè

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Ëåâ Äàíèëêèí. Áåí Îêðè "Ãîëîäíàÿ äîðîãà" - Russian
URL: http://www.africana.ru/konkurs/raboti/Danilkin/BenOkri.htm

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Ben Okri, An Urhoboman, As A Literary Icon - English
URL: http://www.waado.org/UrhoboCulture/Literature/BenOkri/BenOkriPage.html

Ben Okri, an alumnus of Urhobo College, an Ughelli native, is rated as one of the world's top writers.

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