Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, curates this one-volume overview of the best of African literature. Here is a pantheon of enormous talents from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Tayeb Salih, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, M. G. Vassanji, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, and many more. The writers hail from fourteen different countries and many more ethnic backgrounds, write in many different languages, and collectively have won four Nobel Prizes, several Commonwealth Writers Prizes, and Booker Prizes, among other honors. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

BIO

Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. His books have won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa and the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. He was born in Minna, Nigeria, and lives in London.

[H]  Everyman's Library  /  February 18, 2025

1.6" H x 7.3" L x 4.8" W (1.2 lbs) 560 pages