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Sir 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'.
[Okri’s] writing takes on the great riddles of existence – freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence – spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts * New York Times * A writer who refuses to stop asking the hardest questions * New York Times * Okri can distil language to its essence... his sentences have a careful simplicity, but not at the expense of eloquent writing’ * Financial Times * Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence * Independent on Sunday * 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 Okri’s writing has a light-as-air elegance * New Statesman * Fiction's master enchanter -- Ben Okri There is as much healing as there is heartache in this beautiful book * NB Magazine * [A] whimsical tale of transformation * The Guardian *
