Ben Okri, Biography, The Famished Road, Books, & Facts

Ben Okri is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who used magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth. His novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. Learn more about Ben Okri’s life and writings here.

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The Famished Road by Ben Okri

The Famished Road Trilogy Book Series

Beyond the Postcolonial Novel: Ben Okri's The Famished Road and its Abiku Traveller - Margaret Cezair-Thompson, 1996

The Famished Road - Ben Okri, Vintage Classic [1991]

The Famished Road (1991), by Ben Okri, winner of the Booker Prize 1991

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