{"id":11196,"date":"2017-02-20T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11196"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:55:56","slug":"okri-ben","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okri-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"OKRI, Ben"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, born March 15, 1959, Minna, Niger State. State of Origin; Delta. Education: John Donne&#8217;s School, Peckham, London; Children&#8217;s Home School, Sapele, Delta State; Christ High School, Ibadan, Oyo State; Urhobo College, Effurum, Delta State; University of Essex, United Kingdom. Career: Appointed Staff Writer\/Librarian, Afriscope magazine, 1978; Poetry Editor, West Africa magazine, 1983-86; Broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1983-86; Fellow Commoner, Creative Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1991-93. Awards \/Honours: recipient, Commonwealth Prize for Africa, 1987; Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, 1987; Booker Prize, The Famished Road, 1991; Premio Letterario Internazionale, Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore, 1992; Premio Grinzane Cavour, 1994; The Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, 1995; Social Club: member, PEN Internatioinal. Publicatioins: Flower and Shadows, .1980; The Landscapes Within, 1982; Incidents at the Shrine, 1986; Stars Of The New Curfew, 1988; The Famished Road, 1991; An African Elegy, 1992; Songs Of Enchantment, 1993; Astonishing The Gods, 1995; Birds Of Heaven, 1996; Dangerous Love, 1996. Hobbies: chess, music, travel, theatre, dancing, cinema, art, games, riddles, silence. Home Address: 20, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SWIV2SA, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2415],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11196","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}