Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road

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Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road — Cover of Okri's Booker Prize winning novel Image source

Ben Okri is a Nigerian author born in Minna, Western Nigeria. He received critical acclaim after the publishing of his first novel Flowers and Shadows. His novels are usually fantastic stories with a strong allegiance to Yoruba folklore, New Ageism,spiritual realism, magical realism, visionary materialism, and existentialism. His third novel, The Famished Road, was published in 1991 and announced as the winner of the Booker Prize on 22 October 1991. The book addresses the co-existence of the spiritual and material worlds through the life of a spirit child living in an unnamed Nigerian City.

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01African Success Biography of Ben OKRI [online] Available at: www.africansuccess.org [Accessed on 24 September 2013]
02Conceptual Fiction THE YEAR OF MAGICAL READING The Famished Road by Ben Okri [online] Available at: www.conceptualfiction.com [Accessed on 24 September 2013]

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South African History Online. (2012, August 28). Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0092741

South African History Online (2012) 'Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road', South African History Online, 28 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0092741 (Accessed: 16 August 2026).

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"Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road." South African History Online, 28 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0092741. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Nigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road." South African History Online. August 28, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0092741.