Ben Okri

Ben Okri, OBE ( born March 15, 1959 central Nigerian Bendel State in the city of Minna, Nigeria ) is a Nigerian writer.

As a two year old, he comes with his parents to London, where his father studied law and he himself eventually his schooling begins. In 1966, he returns back to Nigeria, growing in Ibadan and Lagos on Ikenne, finally graduated from high school at Urhobo College in Warri and starts in this time to turn to the writing. After leaving school he waits for his approval for the study at a Nigerian University and has worked in various professions: He works for a company in the chemical industry, as a journalist for a magazine in Lagos and teaches mathematics. When Ben Okri in 1978 still receiving a place in Nigeria, he returned to London, where he interrupted only by short trips in his country, still lives and works today, and enrolled in Comparative Literature.

Works

  • Flowers and Shadows. Longman, London 1980
  • The Landscapes Within. Longman, London 1981
  • Before the Euphoria Ends. in West Africa, September 2, 1985, p 1793-4
  • Incidents at the Shrine. Vintage, London, 1986, German masquerades and other stories
  • Stars of the New Curfew. Penguin, London 1988
  • The Famished Road. Vintage, London, 1991, dt The Famished Road
  • An African Elegy. Cape, London 1992, German African Elegy
  • Songs of Enchantment. Cape, London 1994, continuation of ' Famished Road '
  • Astonishing the Gods. Phoenix House, London 1995, dt The Invisible Man
  • Birds of Heaven. Orion 1995, dt birds of the air - way to freedom
  • Dangerous Love. Phoenix House, London 1996, German captious love
  • A Way of Being Free. Phoenix House, London 1997
  • Infinite Riches. Phoenix House, London 1998, continuation of ' Songs of Enchantment '
  • Mental Fight. Phoenix House, London 1999
  • In Arcadia. Weidenfeld, London 2002
  • Star Book. Rider, London 2007
  • Tales of Freedom. Rider, London 2009
  • A Time for New Dream. Rider, London 2011
  • Wild. Rider, London, 2012. Dt. Wild - poems. Translated by Brigitte Oleschinski. Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg / Neckar 2014
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