Book description
Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain's foremost poets,
Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time
for New Dreams he breaks new ground in an unusual collection of
linked essays, which address such diverse themes as childhood,
self-censorship, the role of beauty, the importance of education and
the real significance of the recent economic meltdown.
Proving that 'true literature tears up the script' of how we see
ourselves, A Time for New Dreams is provocative and
thought-provoking. In an intriguing marriage of style and content, the
concise but perfectly formed essays in this collection push the
parameters of writing whilst asking profound questions about who we
are and the future that awaits us.
Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including
The Famished Road
and
Starbook
, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work
has been translated into more than 20 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.
