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African Stories

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Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road , curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present. This collection includes a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and many more.

About the author

Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.

Product details

Authors Ben Okri, Various
Assisted by Ben Okri (Editor), Okri Ben (Editor)
Publisher Everyman's Library UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 03.10.2024
 
EAN 9781841596372
ISBN 978-1-84159-637-2
No. of pages 560
Dimensions 127 mm x 191 mm x 38 mm
Series Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Art

FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Africa, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, anthology; collection; race; letters; english literature

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