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Emergence Magazine<p>“His writing takes on the great riddles of existence—freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence—spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts.” Anderson Tepper on the work of Nigerian British writer Ben Okri. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/books/ben-okri.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2023/01/26/books/b</span><span class="invisible">en-okri.html</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BenOkri" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BenOkri</span></a></p>
Indigo<p>Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road | The Booker Prize</p><p>&quot;In a new film made exclusively for the Booker Prizes, Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood&quot;</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BenOkri" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BenOkri</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BookerPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookerPrize</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackTwitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackTwitter</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AfricanWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AfricanWriters</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackWriters</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AfricanAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Documentary</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/TheBookerPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheBookerPrize</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2LQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2L</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p>