African Stories

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Description

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 a pantheon of greats from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, DorisLessing, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and many more.

Additional information

Weight 0.75 kg
Dimensions 4 × 12.6 × 19.5 cm
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Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

560

publisher

Year Published

2025-3-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

184159637X

About The Author

Ben Okri (External Editor) 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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