Podcast: short stories with Ben Okri
Podcast: short stories with Ben Okri
By The RA Podcast Team
Published 12 April 2016
In partnership with Pin Drop, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri reads one of his short stories.
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Ben Okri has published eight novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded an 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.
In this podcast, in association with Pin Drop, he reads one of his own short stories.
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