Ben Okri was born in Nigeria in 1959, and now lives in England. At once a poet, a fiction writer and an essayist, he is best known for his novel The Famished Road, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1991. His latest book of fiction is entitled Tales of Freedom (2009), and his new collection of essays, A Time for New Dreams, was released earlier this year.

Comments and additions are most welcome and can be sent to the editor of this bibliography, Daria Tunca.

5 March 2012: Secondary Sources and On the Internet sections updated.

21 February 2012: Secondary Sources updated. With special thanks to Vanessa Guignery.

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29 December 2011: Secondary Sources updated. With thanks to Asis De.

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