The next Nigerian most likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature is Ben Okri, who is still the youngest winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction for his third novel The Famished Road (1991) when he was only 32. He is the only Nigerian writer since the first African Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka I can say is AWESOME!
Bibliography
- 2012
- Wild, Rider Books
- 2011
- Time for New Dreams, Rider Books
- 2009
- Tales Of Freedom, Rider Books
- 2007
- Starbook, Rider Books
- 2002
- In Arcadia, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 1999
- Mental Fight, Phoenix House
- 1998
, Phoenix HouseInfinite Riches - 1997
- Way of Being Free, Phoenix House
- 1996
, Phoenix HouseDangerous Love - 1995
- Birds of Heaven, Orion
- 1995
- Astonishing the Gods, Phoenix House
- 1993
- Songs of Enchantment, Cape
- 1992
- An African Elegy ,Cape
- 1991
- The Famished Road, Cape
- 1988
- Stars of the New Curfew, Secker & Warburg
- 1986
- Incidents at the Shrine, Heinemann
- 1981
- Landscapes within (Drumbeats, Longman
- 1980
- Flowers and Shadows, Longman
Awards
- 2001
- OBE
- 2000
- Premio Palmi (Italy), Dangerous Love
- 1995
- Crystal Award (World Economic Forum)
- 1994
- Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), The Famished Road
- 1993
- Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize, The Famished Road
- 1991
- Booker Prize for Fiction, The Famished Road
- 1988
- Guardian Fiction Prize, Stars of the New Curfew, shortlist
- 1987
- Paris Review/Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, Incidents at the Shrine
- 1987
- Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book), Incidents at the Shrine
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