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	Ben Okri
		Ben Okri, a member of the Urhobo people, was born in Minna to Grace and Silver Okri.
		Okri childhood was shadowed by the Nigerian civil war (the Biafran War).
		Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers, who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary tradition.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /okri.htm (1401 words)

	Ben Okri
		Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father.
		Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in 2001.
		Okri’s great achievement, The Famished Road, is one of the most acclaimed post-1945 African novels, and the magisterial opening volume of a cycle that continues with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998).
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth82 (1674 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Okri, Ben
		Okri is considered one of the finest African writers within the postcolonial tradition.
		Okri's two follow-ups (or, as he describes them, the "continuation of the dream") developed his mythical vision but on a diminished scale.
		Okri's most recent novel, Arcadia (2002), follows a television documentary crew on a train journey through Europe, and was panned as "thin and mean".
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-194,00.html (434 words)

	Cam - on Okri
		Because Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1992) seems to be the case which prompted her article, and because it receives slightly more of her attention, I would like to focus my critique on her analysis of it.
		Okri replaces this Western set of expectations with a cyclical mode of development, one into which it is difficult to read any kind of pattern, even in retrospect, not to mention during a first reading.
		It is also easy to see Okri as drawing on this aesthetic in his reliance on the metaphor of the road, and in his use of a concatenation of discrete and apparently non-progressive episodes and in his depiction of several contiguous realms of "real" entities.
	www.cam-and-heather.com /cam_new/academia/okri.html (2953 words)

	Ben Okri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist.
		He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Westminster (1997) and the University of Essex (2002), and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2001.
		Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre for the International PEN, an association of writers with 130 branches in over 100 countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Okri (390 words)

	Ben Okri, An Urhoboman, As A Literary Icon
		Ben Okri's family is well known to many members of Urhobo Historical Society, including its Secretary whose family has old ties with the Okri family.
		Ben Okri's main literary characters not only bear Urhobo names, such as Omovo; in many instances, they resonate the manners, achievements, dilemmas, and failures of Urhobo culture.
		In Ben Okri's writings, many Urhobos see themselves fully displayed to the world by one of their own who has been endowed by the Creator with extraordinary gifts.
	www.waado.org /UrhoboCulture/Literature/BenOkri/BenOkriPage.html (153 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Ben Okri
		Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father.
		Ben Okri is also the author of a play, In Exilus.
		Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in 2001.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /bios/ben_okri.html (370 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Ben Okri: A writer honoured
		Ben Okri, who is to be made an OBE, was born in 1959 in Lagos, Nigeria.
		Okri moved to England to study at the University of Essex and has remained there ever since.
		Okri has also published two collections of short stories, Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988), and a collection of poems, An African Elegy (1992).
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/arts/1391193.stm (311 words)

	ben okri amore pericoloso (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Okri, Ben - Un amore pericoloso - Giunti - 1999...
		Okri, Ben Un amore pericoloso / Ben Okri ; traduzione di Giorgio Bizzi.
		Un amore pericoloso Ben Okri Firenze : Giunti, 1999 lingua: ITA collocazione: RMZ64 VIS.
	ben-okri-amore-pericoloso.wnakxc.net (637 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Famished Road: Livres en anglais: Ben Okri (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The cyclical nature of history dooms human beings to walk the road of their lives fighting corruption and evil in each generation, fated to repeat the errors of the past without making the ultimate progress that will redeem the world.
		Okri's magical realism is distinctive; his prose is charged with passion and energy, electrifying in its imagery.
		The sheer bulk of episodes, many of which are repetitious in their evocation of supernatural phenomena, tends to slow narrative momentum, but they build to a powerful, compassionate vision of modern Africa and the magical heritage of its myths.
	www.amazon.fr /Famished-Road-Ben-Okri/dp/0385425139 (796 words)

	Ben Okri: A Rousing Bard
		Okri is one of those extant writers who aim to and do rouse social consciousness, impart knowledge; one of those writers whose work is of cosmic proportion.
		Although the wellbeing of Africa, of all her children is a great concern of Okri, it would be a grave mistake to assume his work is (or deem it) limited to exploring African issues.
		BEN OKRI will excel Chinua Achebe in prose and he has taken the transcendental opus of the Soyinkasque prose to the next level.
	www.nigeriansinamerica.com /articles/579/1/Ben-Okri-A-Rousing-Bard/Page1.html (2008 words)

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		Okri Ben - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Okri, Ben (1959- ), Nigerian novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
		Born in Minna, Okri was educated in London and in Nigeria, returning to...
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	Eye Weekly - BOOKS: Ben Okri - 01.27.94
		When Ben Okri's epic novel The Famished Road bagged the Booker Prize in 1991, the Nigerian-born writer was lauded for his sensitive imagination, heralded as a "spirit child" and regarded as a fresh new literary voice.
		Obviously, Okri feels there are many readers who focus myopically on their own narrow interests -- a state of affairs which he thinks reflects an overall spiritual bankruptcy as opposed to a personal slight.
		Okri's well aware that writing is an act of exposure that opens him to criticism, but solemnly defends his responsibility.
	www.eyeweekly.com /eye/issue/issue_01.27.94/ARTS/bo0127.php (818 words)

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		Born in Minna, a small town in central Nigeria, Okri was educated at Urhobo College, Warri, Nigeria, and then in England, where he attended the University of Essex and studied comparative literature.
		Critical interest in Okri's writing was first generated by his short story collection Incidents at the Shrine (1987), which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa.
		Okri's works also include a volume of incantatory poems, An African Elegy (1992) as well as a sequel to The Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment (1993).
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/O/okriben/1.html (257 words)

	The Books Interview: Ben Okri - `Great art tries to get us to the Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Okri takes it, turns it over, holds it in silence, concentrates, eyes shut, and drinks it in.
		Okri's new novel In Arcadia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 14.99) is all about listening out for the "something else".
		I ask Okri about a couple of phrases from In Arcadia: "I don't mind failure; it's something to get past on the way to greatness", and "Never write a man off till you have heard his last song." "You notice a lot of things," he replies gnomically.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020907/ai_n12646942 (894 words)

	The Ben Okri Bibliography: On the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bennett Robert, 'Ben Okri' (biography, major works and themes, critical reception and bibliography), in Puspa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne (eds), Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, (Westport: Greenwood, 1998).
		Verge, Violetta Jojo, 'Ben Okri's Inscription In Arcadia: An Epiphany of Life and Art', paper presented at the conference '"African Renewal, African Renaissance": New Perspectives on Africa’s Past and Africa’s Present', African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference Proceedings, November 26-28, 2004.
		Killam, Douglas and Ruth Rowe, 'Ben Okri', The Companion to Africa Literature (London: James Currey, 2000).
	www.ulg.ac.be /facphl/uer/d-german/L3/bolinks.html (1037 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Famished Road: Books: Ben Okri (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Okri could have written a diatribe about the injustice of third world debt or the iniquity of the luxurious life we live in the West compared to the struggle to survive in poor countries.
		What i found absoltely incredible- and unique- about this book is the ease with which Okri merges enlightening and sometimes shocking images of African life, with the surreal and dark supernatural world, both seen through the eyes of Azaro - 'the spirit child'.
		His everyday struggles- living in poor accomadations admist political upheaval, while his father indulges in his eccentricities and suffers in his manual labour job, - seem entangled with the strange spiritual or mental battle Azaro has with the strange creatures he sees around him, and the call of his fellow' spirit children'.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Famished-Road-Ben-Okri/dp/0385425139 (1255 words)

	Okri, Ben - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nigerian novelist and poet Ben Okri was born in 1959 to Urhobo parents.
		Described by the author as a "double mirror" between the conditions of "the psychic world of the artist and the chaos of daily life," the novel grapples with the often violent collision between the traditions and the innovations of modern Nigeria.
		Okri, one of the most important new voices in contemporary African literature in English, is very conscious of the post-independence realities of African societies; hence his works are often satirical and critical of the various political and economic crises that have plagued African countries since the end of the colonial period.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/3264.html (1099 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Ben Okri
		Okri was born in Minna, a railway town in central Nigeria, in March 1959, nineteen months before his country's independence from Britain.
		Okri has spoken only intermittently about this period, but it clearly made an enormous impression on him, and was to have an important effect both on his political and moral understanding and on his work.
		Okri began writing fiction in his late teens when, back in Lagos, he held a day job as a clerk at ICI.
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	Ben Okri (1959- )
		Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Lagos, Nigeria.
		Okri claims that his childhood has significantly influenced his writing, yet he has not shared many details about his childhood because he believes that it is best explored in his fiction.
		Instead of providing autobiographical details, Okri prefers to talk about how reading has influenced his writing.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /post/nigeria/okri/bennett1a.html (243 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Ben Okri
		OKRI, Ben In Arcadia Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson LONDON 2002.
		Okri, Ben Incidents at The Shrine Publisher: Heinemann London 1986.
		Okri, Ben Selection of Works: The Famished Road; State of the New Curfew; Incidents at the Shrine; Dangerous Love.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Ben_Okri (1026 words)

	In the Shadow of War Summary & Essays - Ben Okri
		Ben Okri published an early version of “In the Shadow of War” in the London publication West Africa, in 1983.
		Like much of Okri’s writing, “In the Shadow of War” focuses on a young main character, who in this case is a Urhobo boy, age seven or eight, named Omovo.
		By incorporating fantastical elements into the work, Okri opens the story to a myriad of interpretations, all of which conspire to fortify his theme that, in the face of war, the distinctions between right and wrong become unclear.
	www.enotes.com /shadow-war (350 words)

	Ben Okri - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ben Okri - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Okri, Ben, born in 1959, Nigerian novelist, poet, and short-story writer, who achieved international recognition with his third novel,...
		Search for books about your topic, "Ben Okri"
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	Nigerian literature: Works from a country in progress
		The efforts of Achebe and Omotoso have been overshadowed by the emergence of Ben Okri, who wrote his first novel at the age of 19.
		Okri is a child of the 1970s, and his first three novels show the frustration and alienation of members of this generation.
		Okri is a powerful modern novelist in the tradition of the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Indian-born Salman Rushdie.
	emeagwali.com /nigeria/literature/nigerian-literature-jan93.html (995 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Ben Okri (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It provides a brief biography of Okri, a chronology of his works, a discussion of his major works, themes and critical reception and includes a bibliography.
		The discussion of Okri's works and the bibliography are written by Robert Bennett of the University of California at Santa Barbara, a recognised expert on Okri, and are taken with permission from a published source.
		Bennett discusses Okri's early novels, "Flowers and Shadows" and "The Landscapes Within"; his two collections of short stories, "Incidents at the Shrine" and "Stars of the New Curfew"; and devotes most attention to Okri's 1991 classic, "The Famished Road".
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=7967 (330 words)

	Amazon.com: Dangerous Love: Books: Ben Okri (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The green scumpool Okri's hero paints could be the picture the author has of Africa in his mind.
		Quite apart from the dirt, the grinding poverty, and the soul destroying corruption underlying the system at all levels, Okri rails against the "thought police" who are out to muzzle the press and the free expression of artists, as well as the deliberate inefficiencies and regular cover-ups by the law enforcement agencies.
		Ben Okri is one of those writers who appears only once in a generation to enchant with his magical, engagingly lyrical prose - or should I say Poetry as Prose, and Dangerous Love qualifies as such in every respect.
	www.amazon.com /Dangerous-Love-Ben-Okri/dp/1857998863 (1343 words)

	Ben Okri, Biografie \| Literaturportal AfrikaRoman
		Nach dem Schulabschluß wartet Ben Okri auf seine Zulassung für das Studium an einer nigerianischen Universität und nimmt einstweilen verschiedene Tätigkeiten auf: er arbeitet in einem Betrieb der chemischen Industrie, sowie als Journalist für ein Magazin in Lagos, und unterrichtet Mathematik.
		Als Ben Okri 1978 noch immer keinen Studienplatz in Nigeria bekommen hat, geht er zurück nach London, wo er - unterbrochen nur durch kurze Reisen in sein Heimatland - bis heute lebt und arbeitet, und immatrikuliert sich für vergleichende Literaturwissenschaften.
		Ben Okri lebt und arbeitet heute in London.
	www.afrikaroman.de /autoren/autor.a_z/autor_okri.php (380 words)

	Amazon.com: The Famished Road: Books: Ben Okri (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Okri's magical realism is distinctive; his prose is charged with passion and energy, electrifying in its imagery.
		Okri weaves many elements of traditional Nigerian folklore into his novel, but the form and structure are very much in the tradition of the modern English novel.
		Ben Okri's THE FAMISHED ROAD is exceptional in its treatment of fiction as a study of both history and prophecy.
	www.amazon.com /Famished-Road-Ben-Okri/dp/0385425139 (2511 words)

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