African Stories

Ben Okri, Various

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Everyman Hardcovers
01 July 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.

A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.

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 stories by contemporary voices like Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie along with a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Ousmane Semb ne, J. M. Coetzee, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more.

By: Various
Edited by: Ben Okri
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 547g
ISBN: 9781841596372
ISBN 10: 184159637X
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ben Okri (External Editor) 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.