Author Sir Ben Okri's fortunes turned around after an astonishing breakthrough
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 ...
In The Studio - Ben Okri: Inside the mind of a poet
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 ...
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How ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted’ by Ben Okri Got Made
In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Ben Okri's Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, a story of a masked ball in present-day France, drawing on A Midsummer ...
Global Voices11dOpinion
Redefining belonging: From statelessness to collective strength
"How could I belong so completely in a place — speaking its languages, embracing its culture, living my entire life there — ...
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One night to resolve all matters of the heart
Ben Okri emphasizes abstract ideas over nuanced characters in the farce “Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the ...
Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
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 ...