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In this short video, the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri shares the magical moment of that day alone in the heavy African rain, when he decided that he was going to write. 

Nigerian-born and UK-based Ben Okri is a Booker prize-winning, internationally renowned writer with 11 published books and several collections of poetry and essays. He is an acclaimed scholar, whose works have been translated into more than 20 languages around the world. Okri moved to the UK as a child, where he went to school in…

Madame Sosostris Ben Okri, Nigerian-British writer, winner of the 1991 Man Booker Prize, offers a comedy about the mysteries of the human heart. This unique piece, presented here as a world premiere, invites spectators to a masked ball of broken hearts. Clairvoyant Madame Sosostris, a character inspired by TS Eliot’s poem The Wasteland is announced…

Over the coming decade, a million species face extinction. It is estimated that 200 species go extinct every day. We can remain silent or we can lend our voices however best we can to try to save them. On the Brink took place online on Monday, November 30th at 7pm GMT to commemorate Remembrance Day…

Author Ben Okri discusses his new short story collection, Prayer for the Living, why he wants readers to take their time with his work, and why re-reading is more pleasurable for him than reading. Listen Here

Awarding-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri has been commissioned to write a poem to mark the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi next month. He also narrates the work, entitled Why Are You, You? for a new video released this week to promote the museum on Saadiyat Island. Read News @ thenationalnews Visit The Louvre Abu…

It is an important stage for our literature. In a sense the real literature of a people begins with the passing of writers into the realm of ancestors. Literature begins with the dead. For that is when we can start to see the meanings of their works which may have been concealed from us when…

Booker Prize-winning novelist and poet Ben Okri reflects on the creative power of the Cornish coast. Read the Article Here.    

And Peace Shall Return – Short Story by Ben Okri Once upon a time, in a world that no longer exists, there was a planet with vast seas, abundant forests, splendid continents, polar regions, and civilizations that evolved from remote beginnings to an age of skyscrapers and digital revolutions. Those who lived on this planet…