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• "A Literature Should Be Like a Feast": Sir Ben Okri in Conversation with Bola Mosuro - Brittle Paper
• Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Ben Okri: Review by Maya C. James - Locus Online
• ‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - The Guardian
• The Sunday Poem: Scratching the Sky by Ben Okri - The Observer
• Ben Okri: ‘We rarely use an African text to illustrate the human condition’ - The Africa Report
• “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri - Good News Network
• Ben Okri details love of short stories at African anthology launch - African Business
• One night to resolve all matters of the heart - The Christian Science Monitor
• Ben Okri on the Ambiguity of Reality - The New Yorker
• ‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape - The Guardian
• A History of New Forms - Hauser & Wirth
• Writers Talking Writers: Ben Okri on Christopher Okigbo and Katie Kitamura on Natalia Ginzburg - Publishers Weekly
• Booker Prize–Winning Author Ben Okri to Deliver Ha Jin Lecture Tonight - Boston University
• 'The Freedom Artist' Is A Perfect Read For A Post-Truth Era - NPR
• Introducing… ‘Tiger Work’ by Ben Okri - Beshara Magazine
• Ben Okri’s mission impossible: finding the perfect beret - The Observer
• Ben Okri on Perception and Illusion - The New Yorker
• Ben Okri, Booker Winner, Comes to Other Press - Publishers Weekly
• Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days | Ben Okri - The Guardian
• Ben Okri on swapping novels for painting: ‘Could these two great rivers of creativity merge?’ - The Guardian
• The Immensity of Brevity: On Ben Okri’s “Prayer for the Living” - Los Angeles Review of Books
• 'You do this or you die': how Ben Okri wrote The Famished Road - The Booker Prizes
• Maya C. James Reviews Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri - Locus Online
• Ben Okri: Beyond Myth and Magic - Literary Hub
• Art and Fire: An Interview with Ben Okri - PEN Transmissions
• Ben Okri on Manipulating Reality - The Atlantic
• A Novel of ‘Dangerous Love’ in a Country Racked by Civil War (Published 2023) - The New York Times
• New Spells for the Future: A Conversation with Ben Okri - Los Angeles Review of Books
• Ben Okri: ‘I began Don Quixote as one person and finished as another’ - The Guardian
• A moment that changed me: Ben Okri – realising my dream to become a novelist at the age of 19 - The Guardian
• How ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted’ by Ben Okri Got Made - Publishers Weekly
• Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri review – a slender fable - The Guardian
• Ben Okri: ‘If you’re hungry, books seem full of feasts’ - The Guardian
• Ben Okri on How ‘Art Helps Us Unify’ - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
• The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri review – wake-up call of a world without books - The Guardian
• Ben Okri wins bad sex in fiction award for scene featuring rocket going off - The Guardian
• The In-Between World: On the Mythology of The Famished Road and the Literary Scaffolding of Ben Okri - Literary Hub
• Jeff VanderMeer! Ben Okri! Peter Singer talks turkey! 24 new books out today. - Literary Hub
• The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri review – visions of dystopia - The Guardian
• Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri talks about his new environmentally-conscious children’s book - Orange County Register
• 'I can't breathe': why George Floyd's words reverberate around the world - The Guardian
• Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery - The Guardian
• Giving the World a New Kind of Literature: Interview with Ben Okri - Brittle Paper
• Poetry reading by Ben Okri, accompanied on piano by Myra Melford - Pinault Collection
• 'Ben Okri & Rosemary Clunie: firedreams' at The Bomb Factory, London - Lisson Gallery
• Earth cries! We are the gods that must step up to the biggest crisis in history | Ben Okri's poem on the climate crisis - The Guardian
• Dangerous Love by Ben Okri - Publishers Weekly
• Existential Creativity - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
• Ben Okri celebrates African literary excellence - voice-online.co.uk
• Ben Okri: 'War taught me as a kid that there is no certainty in this world' - Big Issue
• Meet the Final Panel Judges of The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2025 - Royal Commonwealth Society
• A Poem for the Booker Prize - The Booker Prizes
• Changing Destiny review – Ben Okri’s sketchy foray into ancient Egypt - The Guardian
• Ben Okri: 'I was nearly shot because I couldn’t speak my dad’s language' - The Guardian
• An Interview with Award-Winning Author Ben Okri - Early Bird Books
• Great Novelist Ben Okri Explains Why Nigeria Has Become a ‘Literary Factory’ - IDN-InDepthNews
• Sir Ben Okri marks the launch of Vital Signs: another world is possible - King's College London
• Akala, Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Okri and more pick 20 classic books by writers of colour - The Guardian
• Tiger Work by Ben Okri audiobook review – dispatches on a post-apocalyptic world - The Guardian
• ‘For too long literature has been defined by one set of people’: writing back to the empire and beyond - The Guardian
• Nigeria’s Ben Okri: ‘At its best, poetry draws our attention away from smallness’ - The Africa Report
• Ben Okri: 'Are you ready for African food?' - The Guardian
• Ben Okri and the Uses of Enchantment - Meanjin
• Tony Allen, Skepta, and Ben Okri become one with the universe on ‘Cosmosis’ - Chicago Reader
• Reality Defeats All Empires (Published 2022) - The New York Times
• The spirit of Africa’s people will transform the continent - The Guardian
• What I learned from Ben Okri about creative writing - The Conversation
• Ben Okri: Long before I encountered them as plays, Shakespeare’s narratives were part of my imagination - New Statesman
• Ben Okri and Margaret Busby thrill at the launch of “African Stories” anthology – Toni Kan - The Lagos Review
• Booker club: The Famished Road | Ben Okri - The Guardian
• Book News: Booker Winner Ben Okri Nabs Bad Sex Prize : The Two-Way - NPR
• Ben Okri’s new poem to celebrate the first portrait of a black African Muslim and freed slave - Gramilano
• Ben Okri erupts at editor over 'rewriting' claim - The Guardian
• The ‘magic of moments’: Ben Okri on slow reading and his new novel - The Conversation
• Ben Okri & Skepta pay tribute to Tony Allen on "Cosmosis" - Pan African Music
• Novelist Ben Okri wins Bad Sex in Fiction prize - Worcester Telegram
• Reading with The Sense of Death All Around Us – Ben Okri - Brittle Paper
• Interview: Ben Okri talks The Freedom Artist and literary festivals - The AU Review
• Ben Okri releases new poem on Twitter - The Guardian
• Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka review – a vast danse macabre - The Guardian
• Ben Okri - Perspective Media
• 10 Powerful Quotes About Storytelling By Ben Okri - Brittle Paper
• Ben Okri, Leila Aboulela, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, and Rania Mamoun on the Lineup of 2023 Pittsburgh International Literary Festival - Brittle Paper
• The Outsider review – Ben Okri adapts the Camus classic - The Guardian
• Novelist Ben Okri on the childhood trauma that drives his creativity - South China Morning Post
• An ancient imagination: Ben Okri on The Inheritors by William Golding - The Irish Times
• Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics - The Guardian
• Sir Ben Okri: Being honoured means helping the human race to be more civilised - The Independent
• Ben Okri: Brexit is Iago’s paradise - New Statesman
• Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri - review - The Guardian
• Kathy Watson - Nasty Stars - Literary Review
• Ben Okri to compile anthology of political poetry - The Bookseller
• Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2014: Ben Okri takes the gong for The Age of Magic - The Independent
• Nigerian Poet Ben Okri Pens A Powerful Eulogy to the Grenfell Tower Victims - OkayAfrica
• "His Passion Began to Drive us Slightly Mad" | Ben Okri on Bibliomania - Brittle Paper
• Review: Starbook by Ben Okri - The Guardian
• Hubert Essakow: Terra review – new Ben Okri poem accompanies earthy dance - The Guardian
• Author Ben Okri: 'Many of my ideas don't stand the test of time' - The National
• Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Invade 'The Simpsons' - OkayAfrica
• Camilla ‘makes reading sexy’, says Ben Okri as Queen hosts Booker Prize event - The Independent