Ben Okri recieves an honorary degree from Bedforshire university!
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Date: 26 July 2010 |
Students graduating Bedfordshire University this year were joined by the poet and novelist Ben Okri OBE (among others) who received an honorary degree, Ben’s, in recognition for his outstanding contribution to literature. Since his first book, Flowers and Shadows, was published in 1980, Ben has since written 15 other novels and has received much recognition for his work. Mr Okri’s novel The Famished Road won the 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction. He was presented with the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum and the Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize and much of his work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He has also received great academic acclaim. As well as being a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is vice-president of the English Centre of International PEN and was awarded an OBE in 2001. |
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