The narratives that shape the way we see ourselves and the world.
Ben Okri writes magical, paradoxical, playful and philosophical things. Novels, poems, essays, stokus, short stories, plays, aphorisms, provocations, meditations. Some of the titles of his books are: ' The Age of Magic', 'Astonishing the gods', 'Tales of Freedom', 'Wild', 'The Famished Road' and 'A Time for New Dreams'. He won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991. He loves walking.
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