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      A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize–winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present. This collection includes stories by contemporary voices like Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie along with a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Ousmane Sembène, J. M. Coetzee, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Okri EAN: 9781841596372 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 560 WEIGHT: 547 g HEIGHT: 191 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Everyman DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-03-06 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / World Literature / Africa / General WIDTH: 127 mm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Short stories

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      Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.

      Format: Hardback

      A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize–winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of classic stories of Africa, past and present. This collection includes stories by contemporary voices like Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie along with a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Ousmane Sembène, J. M. Coetzee, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and many more.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Okri EAN: 9781841596372 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 560 WEIGHT: 547 g HEIGHT: 191 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Everyman DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-03-06 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / World Literature / Africa / General WIDTH: 127 mm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Short stories

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      Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.

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