Ben Okri, Biography, The Famished Road, Books, & Facts

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. Learn more about Ben Okri’s life and writings here.

Plumbing the depths of Africa

The Famished Road Literature Guide by SuperSummary

The Famished Road Trilogy by Ben Okri

The text as riddle and Death's many ways: Ben Okri's The Famished Road

The Famished Road Penguin Random House Higher Education

The Next Chapter's speculative fiction panel shares 9 books to escape into this summer

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Ben Okri – writers make worlds

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and novelist ☆

Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri talks about his new environmentally-conscious children's book – Orange County Register

Prayer For The Living - By Ben Okri (hardcover) : Target

The Famished Road - B&N Reads

Ben Okri: 'War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world' - The Big Issue