Ben Okri
Sign in to saveNigerian-born British poet and novelist (1959-)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 91
Top works
- Lunatics, lovers & poets
- Concrete and Ink
- Justice and Love
- The Famished Road
- Infinite Riches
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Minna, Nigeria
Known for
- Artsnight — Self - Presenter2015
- Great Railway Journeys — Self - Presenter1980
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 647
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,113x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,741x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,472x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,773x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
via Crossref · CC0
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
Key dates
- Born
- 15 March 1959
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Minna
- Occupation
- literary scholar
- Educated at
- University of Essex
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Field of work
- performing arts
Article
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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1959 births20th-century English novelists20th-century Nigerian essayists20th-century Nigerian male writers20th-century Nigerian novelists20th-century Nigerian poets20th-century short story writers21st-century Nigerian essayists21st-century Nigerian male writers21st-century Nigerian novelists21st-century Nigerian poets21st-century Nigerian short story writers