Gemini AI-generated image of a miniature tree growing from a crack in the wall. The image was generated using the quote: "This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down." ~ Ben Okri

🌿 "This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down." ~ Ben Okri

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Five hashtags that capture that spirit:

* #Resilience – For the strength to keep going.
* #BloomWhereYouArePlanted – A classic nod to growing in unexpected places.
* […]

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I thoroughly enjoyed the talk by Ben Okri at @edbookfest on Friday night. It got postponed because of travel problems, but it gave my friend and I time to start the 🍷before the talk... and still continue it after. I'm also really enjoying his new book and The Famished Road... !
#benokri #literature

Like Drinking Water: A Conversation with Ben Okri Ben Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, i…

"a gentle critique of the western world’s rigid concept of reality, specifically Western literature’s fixation on realism, which dates back to the Victorian era"

#KayaPurchase interviewing #BenOkri about

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken Hearted.

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Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri I haven’t read a Ben Okri novel for a long time. He is well known for his third novel, the 1991 Booker Prize winning The Famished Road, the story of Azaro, a spirit child around the time of N…

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Heart Broken by #BenOkri is a modern, humorous fable referencing T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land. It explores identity & authenticity in a theatrical way.

"We spend our lives trying to become ourselves. Few people ever succeed."

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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken Hearted, a novella by Ben Okri, inspired by a verse from the poem T.S.Eliot The Waste Land Ben Okri winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991 for The Famished Road

Reading the novella Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the BrokenHearted by #BenOkri we discover a character of consciousness:

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards.
T.S.Eliot, The Waste Land

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Part vision, part mystery, this story of a midsummer night's madness is also an homage to Eliot's famous poem, by #BenOkri

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Cosmosis Tony Allen, Ben Okri, Skepta · Cosmosis · Song · 2021

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early

Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri & Skepta:
🎵 Cosmosis

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▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song on #Spotify:

Arequipa Ochre and blue walls And the fading peaks Of volcanoes And the sunlight Plummeting beyond The hills waken Leaves to their Lost trees.

“The world counts
On our fall.
Our solitude interests
The butterflies
And the lost gold
Of the afternoons.”

Fridays during #NationalPoetryMonth are #freeversefriday
I’ll share a poem by someone that sings to me
Today #benokri
#NaPoMo #poetry

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#MadameSosostris&theFestivalfortheBrokenhearted (whew!) by #BenOkri is featured in this week's #newbooks haul, complete on our YouTube channel!

Watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/oZTEvIi0kXQ... and buy the books here: bookshop.org/lists/n...

#ReadLocusMagazine #OtherPress

New Release Tuesday 3.18.25
#snugbooks #Booksky #carolebostonweatherford #paulhawken #davidtoomey #ezraklein #jeangrae #conniebriscoe #lauriegilmore #avamorgyn #oliviawrite #stephengrahamjones #benokri #hollygramazio #yukotsushima #lisako #hannahdeitch #patticallahanhenry #janesmiley #emmadonoghue

Wonderful highlight:
#Poets #BlackPoets
#Writers 👌🏽👌🏽 👌🏽
#AfricanPoets
#TheFamishedRoad
#BenOkri #Nigeria

Sir Ben Okri has read ‘War & Peace’ four times. That’s FOUR TIMES people!!!

Do you have a go-to ‘re-read’?

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#books #bookrecommendations #novels #whattoread #readingrecommendations #bookworms #bookpodcast #authors #writers #writing #reading #benokri #readers #authorchat

From T.S. Eliot to Shakespeare: The Literary Inspirations Behind Ben Okri’s Latest Novel “Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted” is Ben Okri’s latest novel. Photo: Barnes & Noble Classic literature has remained relevant across generations due to its timeless…

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From T.S. Eliot to Shakespeare: The Literary Inspirations Behind Ben Okri's Latest Novel

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Sir Ben Okri on his new novel... “It’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream meets Oscar Wilde, with a borrowing from T.S Eliot, laced with a thread of the African spirit world, brought to the boil with the tremors of heartbreak,” Sir Ben Okri t...

On the blog today, Sir Ben Okri, talking about his new novel. Worth a gander.
#magicrealism #tseliot #shakespeare #benokri
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
14/20 #BenOkri
A Way of Being Free
#booksky 💙📚 #bookchallenge
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BHM #Blacksky #Blackauthors #Books

Opening epigram

《Whoever cannot seek the
unforseen sees
Nothing, for the known way
is an impasse.》 #Heraclitus

In the upcoming

#BenOkri novella

Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted

Mar 6, 2025 publication

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"A coisa mais autêntica sobre nós é a nossa capacidade de criar, superar, suportar, transformar, amar e de sermos maiores que o nosso sofrimento."
#BenOkri

Just finished this by #benokri it's superb & highly recommended. It's inspired me to write more short stories & i'm working on one now. What I love is the directness of his images, which lay one on the other like cuts in a movie, and combine into sequences and stories with incredible power. #writing

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Samantha Harvey’s handwritten first lines for the auction of Three Peas

Ben Okri’s handwritten first lines for the auction of Three Peas

The Famished Road book cover

Orbital book cover

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Handwritten by #BenOkri and #samanthaharvey these first lines could be yours for Christmas 🎄
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The Famished Road by Ben Okri. A pretty battered copy, I’ve had this one for 24 years.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚

#BookChallenge
Day 3

#TheFamishedRoad #BenOkri #MagicRealism

Das autentischste an uns, ist unsere Fähigkeit zu erschaffen, zu erdulden, uns zu verändern, zu lieben und stärker zu sein als unsere Leiden. #BenOkri