Awards & Winners

Ben Okri

Date of Birth 15-March-1959
Place of Birth Minna
(Nigeria)
Nationality Nigeria
Profession Writer, Poet, Author, Novelist
Ben Okri OBE FRSL 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 considered better than authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.

Awards by Ben Okri

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ben Okri.

1991


Man Booker Prize
Honored for : The Famished Road

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize The Famished Road