About
Booker Prize for Fiction award winning poet and novelist who acted as the poetry editor of West Africa magazine. He was also a regular contributor to BBC World Service from 1983-1985.
Before Fame
He studied comparative literature at Essex University.
Trivia
In 2014, he was made an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford.
Family Life
He is the son of Silver Oghekeneshineke Loloje Okri and Grace Okri.
Associated With
His post-modern works have been compared to those of Salman Rushdie.
