Ben Okri

Person · Open Library

Born

1959

Works

91

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Film & TV

Acting · Minna, Nigeria

Known for

• Artsnight — Self - Presenter2015
• Great Railway Journeys — Self - Presenter1980

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

28

Total plays

647

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 73,113x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,741x

3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 21,472x

4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,773x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,368x

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Quotes

• “In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.”
• “"You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone."”
• “"How many times had I come and gone through the dreaded gateway? How many times had I been born and died young? And how often to the same parents? I had no idea. So much of the dust of living was in me. But this time, somewhere in the interspace between the spirit world and the Living, I chose to stay.”
• “"Learn to drink, my son. A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life."”
• “"The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you."”
• “"When I woke up I found myself in a coffin. My parents had given me up for dead. They had commenced the burial proceedings when they heard my fierce weeping. Because of my miraculous recovery they named me a second time and threw a party which they couldn’t afford.They named me Lazaro. But as I became the subject of much jest, and as many were uneasy with the connection between Lazaro and Lazarus, Mum shortened my name to Azaro."”

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Key facts

Born

Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri , ( 1959-03-15 ) 15 March 1959 (age 67) , Minna , Nigeria

Occupation

Writer

Nationality

Nigeria, UK

Alma mater

University of Essex

Genre

Fiction, essays, poetry

Literary movement

Postmodernism , Postcolonialism

Notable works

The Famished Road (1991), A Way of Being Free (1997), Starbook (2007), A Time for New Dreams (2011)

Notable awards

Booker Prize 1991

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Image

Ben Okri in Tallinn.jpg

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