African Stories

Name: African Stories
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781841596372
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Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

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African Stories is a Pocket Classics hardcover anthology featuring a collection of stories from Africa spanning centuries, compiled by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, known for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, has curated this comprehensive collection of classic... Read More

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African Stories

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African Stories

Description

African Stories is a Pocket Classics hardcover anthology featuring a collection of stories from Africa spanning centuries, compiled by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, Ben Okri.

Award-winning writer Ben Okri, known for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, has curated this comprehensive collection of classic African stories. The anthology brings together the voices of contemporary authors such as Jamal Mahjoub and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, alongside a pantheon of notable writers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The collection includes stories from renowned authors such as Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Ousmane Sembène, J. M. Coetzee, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and many more.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781841596372

Publisher: Everyman

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Everyman's Library

Contributors:

Edited by Ben Okri

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 547g

Pages: 560

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS

About the Author

Ben Okri (External Editor) Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.