Hi,
You will find some more information about Ben Okri in : http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth82
Ben Okri is son of the Nigerian oral and writen tradition, that has major writers and fine poets like Wole Soyinka (Nobel for Literature on with The interpreter) and Igbo. They used Yoruba tradition in their writing but they are also writers of the civil war, the poverty and the relationships between western World and Africa. Particularly, Ben Okri is able to capture images of misery and magical poetry in the real world of every day.
The book I have decided to present is "Dangerous Love"
This is the story of Omovo, an office worker and artist, who lives with his father and step-mother. In the communal world of the compound, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but most importantly there is Ifeyinwa, a beautiful married woman whom he loves with a passion
Prizes won:
1987 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region). 1987 Paris Review/Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. 1988 Guardian Fiction Award (shortlist) Stars of the New Curfew. 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction. 1993 Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize. 1994 Premio Grinzane Cavour. 1995 Crystal Award (World Economic Forum) 2000 Premio Palmi. 2001 OBE
Author details available also at:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okri.htmhttp:/
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/okri/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1391193.stm
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