CULTURETECHLENSBen Okri
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Ben Okri is a poet, playwright and novelist born in Nigeria who lives in London; his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991.
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Ben Okri is a poet, playwright and novelist born in Nigeria who lives in London; his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991.
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Ben Okri is a poet, playwright and novelist born in Nigeria who lives in London; his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991.
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