Ben Okri
- January 5, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Ben Okri |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Mar 15, 1959(1959-03-15) |
| Age | 65 |
| Birthplace | Minna |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Birth City | Niger State |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
Ben Okri Biography
| Name | Ben Okri |
| Birthday | Mar 15 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place Of Birth | Minna |
| Home Town | Niger State |
| Birth Country | Nigeria |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Parents | Silver Oghekeneshineke Loloje Okri, Grace Okri |
Ben Okri is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 15, 1959 in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Booker Prize for Fiction award winner and novelist who served as the editor of poetry for West Africa magazine. Also, he was a frequent contributor to the BBC World Service from 1983-1985.
His post-modern work has been compared with those by His post-modern works have been compared to those of Salman Rushdie..
Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post- colonial traditions, and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
At the age of 14, after being rejected for admission to a short university program in physics because of his youth and lack of qualifications, Okri experienced a revelation that poetry was his chosen calling. He began writing articles on social and political issues, but these never found a publisher. He then wrote short stories based on those articles, and some were published in women’s journals and evening papers. Okri claimed that his criticism of the government in some of this early work led to his name being placed on a death list, and necessitated his departure from the country. In 1978, Okri moved back to England and went to study comparative literature at Essex University with a grant from the Nigerian government. When funding for his scholarship fell through, however, Okri found himself homeless, sometimes living in parks and sometimes with friends. He describes this period as “very, very important” to his work: “I wrote and wrote in that period… If anything [the desire to write] actually intensified.”
It is his son who is the daughter of Loloje Okri and Grace Okri.
Ben Okri Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Ben Okri is one of the richest Poet from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Okri 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a student of the study of comparative literature in Essex University.
He was awarded the honor in 2014. was appointed an Honorary Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Ben Okri is a member of the Urhobo people; his father was Urhobo, and his mother was half-Igbo. He was born in Minna in west central Nigeria to Grace and Silver Okri in 1959. His father, Silver, moved his family to London when Okri was less than two years old so that Silver could study law. Okri thus spent his earliest years in London and attended primary school in Peckham. In 1968 Silver moved his family back to Nigeria where he practised law in Lagos, providing free or discounted services for those who could not afford it. His exposure to the Nigerian civil war and a culture in which his peers at the time claimed to have seen visions of spirits, later provided inspiration for Okri’s fiction.
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Okri has described his work as influenced as much by the philosophical texts in his father’s book shelves, as it was by literature, and Okri cites the influence of both Francis Bacon and Michel de Montaigne on his A Time for New Dreams. His literary influences include Aesop’s Fables, Arabian Nights, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Okri’s 1999 epic poem, Mental Fight, also is named after a quotation from the poet William Blake’s “And did those feet …”, and critics have noted the close relationship between Blake and Okri’s poetry.
Facts & Trivia
Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Ben Okri celebrates birthday on March 15 of every year.
What does Ben Okri write about?
Okri’s short fiction has been described as more realistic and less fantastic than his novels, but these stories also depict Africans in communion with spirits , while his poetry and nonfiction have a more overt political tone, focusing on the potential of Africa and the world for self-transformation and overcome the …
Where does Ben Okri live?
Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in
- He lives in London.
Where does Ben Okri come from?
Minna, Nigeria
What the Tapster saw by Ben Okri?
Ben Okri’s What the Tapster Saw is a short story about a man who taps palm trees to make palm wine. One day, he falls out of his tree and into a coma, where he has vivid, violent dreams for a straight week, all related to the corruption of his country.
What is the main writing style in The Famished Road '?
The novel employs a unique narrative style incorporating the spirit world with the “real” world in what some have classified as animist realism.