Ben Okri – London to Lagos

Novelist and poet Ben Okri had his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, published when he was 21, and has devoted much of his work to describing the social and political chaos in Nigeria, where he was born. His book The Famished Road won the Booker Prize and his most recent novel is called The Age of Magic. He talks to Wallace about his multi-dimensional world, and his non-linear writing. Ben Okri is coming to New Zealand for next month’s Auckland Writers Festival.

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