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Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria in 1959.
* He moved to England with his family when he was two years old.
* He studied at the University of Essex and worked as a journalist.
* He published his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, in 1980.
* He won the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road in 1991.
* He has written several other novels, including Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches.
* He has also written short stories, poems, and essays.
* He is a member of the Order of the British Empire and the Royal Society of Literature.
* He is a vocal advocate for human rights and social justice.

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.

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