Ben Okri
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Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. He was educated at Essex University. His first novel, Flowers and Shadows, was published in 1980. Okri won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991 for The Famished Road, and was awarded an OBE in 2001.
Ben Okri has been termed as a magic realist although he has shrugged off that tag. He writes by letting his experiences be led on by imagination. his works of poetry include African Elegy(1992) and Mental Fight (1999)
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