Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. He is the author of The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1991.One of Okri's six best books, as shared at the Daily Express:
DON QUIXOTERead about the other entries on the list.
by Cervantes
One of the greatest stories about the power of storytelling and the price paid for following the uniqueness of one’s thoughts. Its humour is very invigorating andit has two of the greatest characters in world literature: Quixote and Sancho Panza who between them define a broad range of humanity.
Don Quixote was the second most popular book among prisoners at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay. It is on Bruce Wagner's six favorite books list, Panayiota Kuvetakis's top ten list of fictional best friends we'd like to have as nonfictional best friends, and John Mullan's lists of ten of the best literary women dressed as men and ten of the best books written in prison.
Paul Auster always returns to Don Quixote; Claire Messud hasn't read it.
--Marshal Zeringue
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