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Ben Okri

1959 - Today

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Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ben Okri has received more than 505,293 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ben Okri is the 6,277th most popular writer (down from 5,774th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Nigerian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Astonishing the gods
Nigeria
This is a story for all ages, set in a time and place best known to lovers of fairytales and myths. It is a modern fable, a way of understanding who we are now and how our search for identity affects our perceptions and actions, shot through with the gentle magic of Ben Okri's imaginative prose. ¿Astonishing the Gods is properly worked and exact, and fulfils Calvino¿s prescription for lightness ¿ being like a bird rather than a feather¿ New Statesman & Society
19953 / 5
Incidents at the shrine
1986
The famished road
Africa
Winner of 1991 Booker Prize. Nigerian author of Ìncidents at the shrine' - and; F̀lowers and shadows' - .
19913 / 5
Songs of enchantment
Fiction
In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his mother who battles for justice. This final chapter in Azaro's adventures is a explosive and haunting climax to this masterful trilogy.
1993
Stars of the new curfew
Fiction
Noveller fra 1980ernes Lagos om den rige og fattige indbyggere.
1988
An African Elegy
Poetry
1992

Page views of Ben Okris by language

Over the past year Ben Okri has had the most page views in the with 60,951 views, followed by French (2,501), and Spanish (2,420). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (1,228.26%), Greek (425.98%), and Croatian (74.46%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ben Okri ranks 6,277 out of 7,302. Before him are Mah Laqa Bai, Róža Domašcyna, Lloyd C. Douglas, Dorothy Wordsworth, Tillie Olsen, and Fareed Zakaria. After him are Caroline Norton, John Clellon Holmes, Alexei Panshin, Charlotte Smith, Polly Samson, and Rami Saari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Ben Okri ranks 484. Before him are Rudolf Koelman, Akif Pirinçci, Franco Chioccioli, Catherine Mouchet, Omar Hakim, and Eben Moglen. After him are Armin Kogler, Gerard Plessers, Mackenzie Phillips, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, Nick Griffin, and Eren Keskin.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Ben Okri ranks 68 out of 309. Before him are Flora Nwapa (1931), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (1962), Omowunmi Sadik (1964), Emmanuel Olisadebe (1978), Ahmed Musa (1992), and Vincent Enyeama (1982). After him are Hauwa Ibrahim (1968), Mohammed Yusuf (1970), Atiku Abubakar (1946), Fiona Fullerton (1956), Victor Moses (1990), and Rabiu Afolabi (1980).

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Among WRITERS In Nigeria

Among writers born in Nigeria, Ben Okri ranks 8. Before him are Chinua Achebe (1930), Olaudah Equiano (1745), Amos Tutuola (1920), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Buchi Emecheta (1944), and Flora Nwapa (1931). After him are Cyprian Ekwensi (1921), Okwui Enwezor (1963), Chris Abani (1966), Sefi Atta (1964), and Helen Oyeyemi (1984).

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