The daily lowdown on books, publishing and the occasional author behaving badly. The Literary Review sent an unmistakable message to authors at a ceremony in London on Wednesday: If you're going to ...

When Ben Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road in 1991, the news was flashed in the front page of many Dhaka dailies. A reporter of a Bangla daily, out of his admiration ...

Exclusive: Nigerian writer, cited as inspiration by Labour leader in speech, pens new verse suggesting ‘There’s always a new way’ and sends it to the Guardian The poet and novelist Ben Okri has repaid ...

Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri will launch Expo City Dubai’s Connecting Minds Book Club at the Terra Auditorium on June 1, spearheading a movement that will celebrate the power of books to ...

For over 30 years, Nigerian writer Ben Okri has been at the forefront of international literature. The author of two dozen books, Okri is perhaps best known for his novel The Famished Road, which won ...

Ben Okri’s books were once published by Random House’s mainstream imprint Jonathan Cape. But over the years his work has become more esoteric, and in 2007 he moved to the company’s Rider imprint, ...

Nigerian author Ben Okri was chosen to deliver UCT’s 13th annual Steve Biko lecture on Wednesday night, and the award-winning poet and novelist gave a compelling address. Some might have hoped for a ...

Sir Ben Okri says to be honoured means “helping the human race to be better and more civilised” after being made a Knight Bachelor. The renowned Nigerian-born writer and cultural activist, considered ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. SongWriter is a podcast that turns stories into songs, featuring David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Joyce Carol Oates, Steve ...

Ben Okri may never have set foot in Kenya, but this isn’t the first time he’s been in the country. The work of his friend and fellow writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o – “one of the great secrets of African ...

This is an audio transcript of the FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Ben Okri on poetry and politics. Plus: graffiti legend 10 Foot’ Lilah Raptopoulos In June of 2017, just after news broke of the tragic ...

Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri tells us about his latest novel, "The Freedom Artist," a world where people are largely asleep, unable or unwilling to think for themselves. Books have disappeared ...