Author

Books by Ben Okri

Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria in 1959 and spent parts of his childhood in London and Lagos. He studied comparative literature at the University of Essex. Before The Famished Road, he published two novels and two short story collections, including Stars of the New Curfew. The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991 and was followed by two further novels in the Azaro sequence: Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches. Okri has also published poetry, essays, and plays. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.