Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects In the Studio - Ben Okri: Inside the Mind of a Poet revealing the writer's creative process. And he reads from his Poetry Extra Book of ...

"How could I belong so completely in a place — speaking its languages, embracing its culture, living my entire life there — ...

There can’t be many people who care for literature, for all round excellence, who wouldn’t be moved by the fact that Wole Soyinka has, at last, been awarded the Nobel prize. In my opinion he entered ...

Ben Okri emphasizes abstract ideas over nuanced characters in the farce “Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the ...

Winning the Booker Prize for his 1991 novel The Famished Road had a life-changing impact on the finances of the then 32-year-old Sir Ben Okri, writes Donna Ferguson. Now 66, he was knighted in 2023 ...

How the long shadow of "Creep," a supernatural novel, a cameo from a future Walking Dead actor, and more played into the band's 1995 alt-rock classic ...

Ben Okri, in addition to providing one of the most haunting and evocative titles of this year, has a sure hand with his chosen genre, the short story. Not a word is wasted, not a phrase out of place.

On "Love Is Blind" season eight, Sara chose not to marry Ben at the altar. She said no because she and Ben weren't on the same wavelength about politics and religion. At the reunion, Sara said ...

Ben Affleck will make sure his children know the value of a dollar. When speaking with Access Hollywood at the premiere of "The Accountant 2" at the SXSW film festival, the 52-year-old actor ...

There’s new fiction from Elif Shafak (There Are Rivers in the Sky); Alexander McCall Smith (Looking for You); Madeleine Thien (The Book of Records); Ruth Jones (By Your Side); Tessa Hadley (The Party) ...