Ben Okri

Ben Okri OBE FRSL
Lahir	15 Maret 1959 (umur 65) Minna, Nigeria
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Kebangsaan	Nigeria UK
Genre	Fiksi, esai, puisi
Aliran sastra	Pascamodernisme, Pascakolonialisme
Karya terkenal	The Famished Road (1991), A Way of Being Free (1997), Starbook (2007), A Time for New Dreams (2011)
Penghargaan	Booker Prize 1991
Website
benokri.co.uk

Ben Okri OBE FRSL (lahir 15 Maret 1959) adalah seorang penyair dan novelis asal Nigeria-Inggris.^[1] Okri dianggap sebagai salah satu penulis Afrika terkemuka yang mengusung unsur pascamodernisme dan pascakolonialisme,^[2][3] dan telah disandingkan dengan penulis seperti Salman Rushdie dan Gabriel García Márquez.^[4] Pada tahun 1991, Okri memenangkan Booker Prize dengan novelnya berjudul, The Famished Road.^[5]

• Flowers and Shadows (1980)
• The Landscapes Within (1982)
• Incidents at the Shrine (1986)
• Stars of New Curfew (1988)
• An African Elegy (1992)
• Song of Enchantment (1993)
• Astonishing the Gods (1995)
• Infinite Riches (1998)
• In Arcadia (2002)
• The Age of Magic (2014).^[6]

• Official website
• Ben Okri's AALBC.com Author Profile
• Ben Okri's official Facebook Page
• Ben Okri's MySpace page
• Ben Okri's official page on the Booker Prizes website.
• Full length You Tube video of Ben Okri winning the 1991 Booker Prize.
• The Ben Okri Bibliography – an extensive bibliography of works by and about Ben Okri. Also includes a short biography and an introduction to his work.
• Audio: Ben Okri in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum, 19 July 2009.
• Ben Okri on RSA Audio, 4 April 2011.
• "The Awakening Age", a poem by Ben Okri.
• "Draw", a poem by Ben Okri.
• "Lines in Potentis" Diarsipkan 14 November 2017 di Wayback Machine., a poem by Ben Okri.
• "Children of the Dream", a poem by Ben Okri.
• "Dancing With Change", a poem by Ben Okri.
• "I sing a new freedom", a poem by Ben Okri.
• "As clouds pass above our heads...", a poem by Ben Okri.
• "O That Abstract Garden" Diarsipkan 12 January 2013 di Wayback Machine., a poem by Ben Okri.
• Ben Okri: An extended film interview with transcripts for the Why Are We Here? documentary series.
• Réhab Abdelghany, "A Question of Power: Ben Okri's 'Meditations on Greatness' at Africa Writes", Africa in Words, 24 August 2015.