Ben Okri (lahir 15 Maret 1959) adalah seorang penyair dan novelis asal Nigeria-Inggris.
Okri dianggap sebagai salah satu penulis Afrika terkemuka yang mengusung unsur pascamodernisme dan pascakolonialisme, dan telah disandingkan dengan penulis seperti Salman Rushdie dan Gabriel García Márquez. Pada tahun 1991,
Okri memenangkan Booker Prize dengan novelnya berjudul, The Famished Road.
Karya
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).
Referensi
Pranala luar
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.
