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Ben Okri, author portrait
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Ben Okri

Ben Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. His books include the eco-fable Every Leaf a Hallelujah, the play Changing Destiny, the genre-bending climate fiction Tiger Work, the poetry collections A Fire in My Head, Wild, Mental Fight, and An African Elegy, and the novels The Last Gift of the Master Artists, The Age of Magic, Dangerous Love, and Astonishing the Gods. In 2023 he received a knighthood for services to literature.
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for  the Brokenhearted
Wild
The Age of Magic
An African Elegy
Tiger Work
A Fire in My Head
Dangerous Love
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
Astonishing the Gods
Every Leaf a Hallelujah

Books

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for  the Brokenhearted
Wild
The Age of Magic
An African Elegy
Tiger Work
A Fire in My Head
Dangerous Love
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
Astonishing the Gods
Every Leaf a Hallelujah

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