Film: ‘You do this or you die’: how Ben Okri wrote The Famished Road

In a new film made exclusively for the Booker Prizes, Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood. Read the Full Article on TheBookerPrizes.com

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.