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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) | 2021 | Shortlist |
About This Book
In a dystopian world where people are imprisoned for asking questions, a man searches for his vanished lover and discovers a book that challenges the foundations of power. An allegorical fable from the Booker Prize-winning author. Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.
About the Author
Ben OkriNigerian-British
Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian-born British novelist, poet, and essayist renowned for his magical realist style depicting social and political turmoil in post-colonial Africa. His most notable work, The Famished Road (1991), won the Booker Prize, making him the youngest recipient at age 32, and forms a trilogy with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998); other achievements include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, OBE (2001), and knighthood (2023). He remains active, with recent works like Prayer for the Living (2019).
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