Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 15. März 1959 |
Geburtsort | Minna, Nigeria |
Sternzeichen | |
Beschreibung | Ben Okri OBE FRSL (geboren am 15. März 1959) ist ein nigerianisch-britischer Dichter und Romancier. Okri gilt als einer der bedeutendsten afrikanischen Autoren in der postmodernen und postkolonialen Tradition und wird mit Autoren wie Salman Rushdie und Gabriel García Márquez verglichen. Im Jahr 1991 gewann Okri mit seinem Roman The Famished Road den Booker Prize. |
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
