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Zusatztext PRAISE FOR BEN OKRI : 'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' Ali Smith. 'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' Marlon James on The Freedom Artist . Informationen zum Autor Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw first-hand the consequences of war, and London. He has won many awards over the years, including the Booker Prize for Fiction, and is also an acclaimed essayist, playwright, and poet. In 2019 Astonishing the Gods was named as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Klappentext These poems range across a wide variety of subjects, from the autobiographical to the philosophical, from war to love, from nature to the difficulty of truly seeing. Vorwort Poems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Zusammenfassung These poems range across a wide variety of subjects, from the autobiographical to the philosophical, from war to love, from nature to the difficulty of truly seeing.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Okri, Okri Ben
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781800244276
• ISBN: 978-1-80024-427-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Fiction, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)