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Ben Okri OBE FRSL
Lahir	15 Maret 1959 (umur 66) , Nigeria
Pekerjaan	Penulis
Kebangsaan	Nigeria UK
Genre	Fiksi, esai, puisi
Gerakan	Pascamodernisme , Pascakolonialisme
Karya terkenal	The Famished Road (1991), A Way of Being Free (1997), (2007), A Time for New Dreams (2011)
Penghargaan terkenal	Booker Prize 1991
Situs web
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 , 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.