Author Description

"Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depths study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career long engagement with myth, with Nigerian politics and culture and with environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene"--