| LC control no. | n 80143800 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9387.9.O394 |
| Personal name heading | Okri, Ben |
| Variant(s) | Okri, Benjamin |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0001 2140 1864 76380613 Q315362 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1959-03-15 |
| Place of birth | Nigeria |
| Profession or occupation | Writers Novelists Playwrights Poets |
| Found in | Flowers and shadows, 1980: title page (Ben Okri) verso title page , etc. (Benjamin Okri, a Nigerian student living in London) Caught in a story, 1992: page 291 (Ben Okri, b. 1959 in Nigeria) Wikipedia, September 20, 2022: (Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-British poet and novelist) New York times, 30 Jan. 2023: in an article entitled, "Is America now ready to embrace Ben Okri?" on page C1 (Ben Okri, prizewinning Nigerian British author; magical realist, long hailed as a literary and social visionary; breadth of Okri's work includes novels, plays, poetry, essays and stories; Okri went unpublished in the United States for nearly 30 years; his groundbreaking 1991 novel "The famished road" received the Booker Prize) |
| Associated language | eng |
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