Ben Okri

Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna; he spent his childhood in London, where his father was studying law, then returned to Lagos and saw the Biafran war as a child. He went back to study in England thanks to a grant from the Nigerian government, withdrawn shortly afterwards, and lived for several months without a fixed address, sleeping at friends' homes or in parks. He published his first novel at twenty-one and has not left England since. The author of some thirty books, a poet and essayist, he lives in London.

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• NovelThe Famished RoadBen Okri · 1991Literature