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This week we are honoured to talk to globally acclaimed author, poet, screenwriter and Booker prize winner Ben Okri OBE! Ben has won numerous awards and honorary doctorates for his fiction and poetry and is considered one of the foremost African authors of the modern era. We talked to Ben about the meaning of being, the character of Walt Whitman, the idea of comfort reading and the importance of reading to our humanity.
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Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
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Ben Okri - The Famished Road
Ben Okri - Every Leaf a Hallelujah
Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Marcel Proust - The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah
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Marcel Proust - Time Regained
Plato - The Republic
Aristotle - Complete Works
Homer - The Odyssey
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Stendahl - La Chartreuse de Parme
Paul Zweig - Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Olivia Laing - The Lonely City
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
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This week we are honoured to talk to globally acclaimed author, poet, screenwriter and Booker prize winner Ben Okri OBE! Ben has won numerous awards and honorary doctorates for his fiction and poetry and is considered one of the foremost African authors of the modern era. We talked to Ben about the meaning of being, the character of Walt Whitman, the idea of comfort reading and the importance of reading to our humanity.
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Olivia Laing - The Lonely City
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
Albert Camus - The Plague
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