Ben Okri - You're Booked
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This week we are honoured to talk to globally acclaimed author, poet, screenwriter and Booker prize winner Ben Okri OBE! Ben has won numerous awards and honorary doctorates for his fiction and poetry and is considered one of the foremost African authors of the modern era. We talked to Ben about the meaning of being, the character of Walt Whitman, the idea of comfort reading and the importance of reading to our humanity. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Daisy Buchanan - Careering Ben Okri - The Famished Road Ben Okri - Every Leaf a Hallelujah Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way Marcel Proust - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower Marcel Proust - The Guermantes Way Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah Marcel Proust - The Prisoner Marcel Proust - The Fugitive Marcel Proust - Time Regained Plato - The Republic Aristotle - Complete Works Homer - The Odyssey Homer - The Iliad Ana Sampson (Ed) - Wonder Stendahl - La Chartreuse de Parme Paul Zweig - Walt Whitman Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass Olivia Laing - The Lonely City TS Eliot - The Waste Land Albert Camus - The Plague
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