Ben Okri
Ben Okri OBE FRSL (lahir 15 Maret 1959) adalah seorang penyair dan novelis asal Nigeria-Inggris.[1] Okri dianggap sebagai salah satu penulis Afrika terkemuka yang mengusung unsur pascamodernisme dan pascakolonialisme,[2][3] dan telah disandingkan dengan penulis seperti Salman Rushdie dan Gabriel García Márquez.[4] Pada tahun 1991, Okri memenangkan Booker Prize dengan novelnya berjudul, The Famished Road.[5]
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| Lahir | 15 Maret 1959 Minna, Nigeria |
| Pekerjaan | Penulis |
| Kebangsaan | Nigeria UK |
| Genre | Fiksi, esai, puisi |
| Aliran sastra | Pascamodernisme, Pascakolonialisme |
| Karya terkenal | The Famished Road (1991), A Way of Being Free (1997), Starbook (2007), A Time for New Dreams (2011) |
| Penghargaan | Booker Prize 1991 |
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Karya
sunting- Flowers and Shadows (1980)
- The Landscapes Within (1982)
- Incidents at the Shrine (1986)
- Stars of New Curfew (1988)
- An African Elegy (1992)
- Song of Enchantment (1993)
- Astonishing the Gods (1995)
- Infinite Riches (1998)
- In Arcadia (2002)
- The Age of Magic (2014).[6]
Referensi
sunting- ^ "Ben Okri", British Council, Writers Directory. Diarsipkan 2 March 2012 di Wayback Machine..
- ^ "Ben Okri", Editors, The Guardian, 22 July 2008.
- ^ Stefaan Anrys, "Interview with Booker Prize laureate Ben Okri", Mondiaal Nieuws, 26 August 2009.
- ^ Robert Dorsman, "Ben Okri", Poetry International Web, 2000. Diarsipkan 16 January 2013 di Wayback Machine..
- ^ "Ben Okri | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2023-04-08.
- ^ Kurnia, Anton (2019). Ensiklopedia Sastra Dunia. Yogyakarta: Diva Press. hlm. 53. ISBN 978-602-391-662-7.
Pranala luar
sunting- Official website
- Ben Okri's AALBC.com Author Profile
- Ben Okri's official Facebook Page
- Ben Okri's MySpace page
- Ben Okri's official page on the Booker Prizes website.
- Full length You Tube video of Ben Okri winning the 1991 Booker Prize.
- The Ben Okri Bibliography – an extensive bibliography of works by and about Ben Okri. Also includes a short biography and an introduction to his work.
- Audio: Ben Okri in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum, 19 July 2009.
- Ben Okri on RSA Audio, 4 April 2011.
- "The Awakening Age", a poem by Ben Okri.
- "Draw", a poem by Ben Okri.
- "Lines in Potentis" Diarsipkan 14 November 2017 di Wayback Machine., a poem by Ben Okri.
- "Children of the Dream", a poem by Ben Okri.
- "Dancing With Change", a poem by Ben Okri.
- "I sing a new freedom", a poem by Ben Okri.
- "As clouds pass above our heads...", a poem by Ben Okri.
- "O That Abstract Garden" Diarsipkan 12 January 2013 di Wayback Machine., a poem by Ben Okri.
- Ben Okri: An extended film interview with transcripts for the Why Are We Here? documentary series.
- Réhab Abdelghany, "A Question of Power: Ben Okri's 'Meditations on Greatness' at Africa Writes", Africa in Words, 24 August 2015.