Ben Okri, Booker Winner, Comes to Other Press

For over 30 years, Nigerian writer Ben Okri has been at the forefront of international literature. The author of two dozen books, Okri is perhaps best known for his novel The Famished Road, which won the 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction. He has since been appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an OBE for his literary contributions, and the vice president of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Yet despite his renown, Okri has not attained widespread name recognition in the United States.