Okri

/ ˈɒkrɪ /

noun

1. Ben. born 1959, Nigerian writer; his books include the Booker-prizewinning The Famished Road (1991), Dangerous Love (1996), and In Arcadia (2002)

Example Sentences

This is exactly why Ben Okri’s “The Famished Road” is stunning.

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Sir Tom Stoppard, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Sir Ben Okri and Julia Donaldson put their calligraphy skills to the test making the latest works.

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Although his collection is diverse—it includes poems about plastic, parables about water, a letter to Earth and vignettes describing our civilization in its waning days—Okri's simple, stirring language runs through it like a current, delivering unexpected shocks of both pain and inspiration.

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Rejecting the term “climate emergency” in favor of “humanity emergency,” Ben Okri puts forth an indictment of humanity that is counterbalanced only by his belief in its capacity for evolution.

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Former hostage Terry Waite is given a knighthood, alongside novelists Ben Okri, and Martin Amis, who died in May.

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