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#moonlitgetaway #literarymagazine #quoteoftheday #dailyquote #benokri #magicalrealism
December 15, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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A dark side of storytelling: "To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art" #BenOkri
July 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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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...

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March 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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We have a brilliant #OfferOfTheWeek #BookSky💙📚

#SIGNED copies of Madame Sosostris & the Festival For the Broken-Hearted with £5 off 💫

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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June 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Wonderful highlight:
#Poets #BlackPoets
#Writers 👌🏽👌🏽 👌🏽
#AfricanPoets
#TheFamishedRoad
#BenOkri #Nigeria
March 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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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
March 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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“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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Arequipa
Ochre and blue walls And the fading peaks Of volcanoes And the sunlight Plummeting beyond The hills waken Leaves to their Lost trees.
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April 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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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
February 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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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
March 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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On the blog today, Sir Ben Okri, talking about his new novel. Worth a gander.
#magicrealism #tseliot #shakespeare #benokri
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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...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Das autentischste an uns, ist unsere Fähigkeit zu erschaffen, zu erdulden, uns zu verändern, zu lieben und stärker zu sein als unsere Leiden. #BenOkri
November 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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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.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚

#BookChallenge
Day 3

#TheFamishedRoad #BenOkri #MagicRealism
The Famished Road by Ben Okri. A pretty battered copy, I’ve had this one for 24 years.
November 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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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
January 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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
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
July 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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"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.

sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/07/...
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…
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July 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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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

💙📚
February 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Maya C. James reviews of MADAME SOSOSTRIS AND THE FESTIVAL FOR THE BROKENHEARTED by @benokri: “Okri offers a scathingly precise yet subtle critique of elitism and power and the hollowness they leave behind.”
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Ben Okri: Review by Maya C. James
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, Ben Okri (Other Press 978-163542-528-4, $24.99, 208pp, hc) March 2025. Twenty years after her first husband aban­doned her, Viv throws a mas…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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An AMAZING WhitLit event tonight with Booker Prize winner, Ben Okri interviewed by author Peggy Riley for a full house! Thank you for visiting us in Whitstable, Ben, & for Waking the Warriors Thank you! Come & see us again.
#benokri #wakingthewarriors #books #whitlit #bookerprize #whitstable
July 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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📚New Book Alert📚

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

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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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March 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
clairewords.bsky.social
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 & 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…
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July 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Reading the cards: my review of 'Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-Hearted' by #BenOkri for #RIPxxi #ReadersImbibingPeril. wp.me/sezD85-sos
Reading the cards: #RIPxxi
The Lovers, from the Rider–Waite Tarot. Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri. Head of Zeus, 2026 (2025). ‘The festival would have to be somewhere fabulous. The…
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September 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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“In the beginning there was a river. The river became the road and the road branched out into the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.” @TheRiver #BenOkri #quote
August 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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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
January 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early

Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri & Skepta:
🎵 Cosmosis

#TonyAllen #BenOkri #Skepta

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song on #Spotify:
Cosmosis
Tony Allen, Ben Okri, Skepta · Cosmosis · Song · 2021
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May 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#corbyn: @benokri what a genius!

The sound of banging on keybords as @TheSun & @MailOnline journos type "benakri" into Google
#bbcdp #Lab15
November 17, 2024 at 9:18 PM