biography
pronunciation:
[okree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1959– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Minna, C Nigeria. He studied in Nigeria, then at the University of Essex, UK. His first books were the autobiographical novels Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981). Later works include two books of short stories (1986, 1988) and the novels The Famished Road (1991, Booker Prize), Dangerous Love (1996), Infinite Riches (1998), and Arcadia (2002). A book of poems, An African Elegy, appeared in 1992. |
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