- Birth nameBen Golden Emuobowho Okri
- Ben Okri is known for Den omättliga vägen (2022), The Age of Magic and N: The Madness of Reason (2014).
- He is a novelist and poet.
- He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
- He was a non-civil service member for the Arts & Media Committee for the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
- Poet and Novelist. He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours List for his services to Literature. He is a poet and novelist in London, England.
- I'm an orchestral writer. I'm meant to be read on many, many levels. People expect me to be one kind of postcolonial writer, which I am but I'm also many, many other things as well: I'm a stylist, a Cubist, an innovator, a spiritual writer, an activist and environmental writer. I'm all of these things.
- I think the tremendous polarization that has taken place now kind of makes my voice easier to hear. Because I don't speak from either polarity. I'm speaking in the middle, in this profoundly human voice.
- Of the many fires in my head, one of them is the fire of fatherhood. Late fatherhood is one of the strangest and most beautiful things I know.
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