As per our current Database, Ben Okri is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Ben Okri is 65 years, 8 months and 6 days old. Ben Okri will celebrate 66rd birthday on a Saturday 15th of March 2025. Below we countdown to Ben Okri upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Ben Okri |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Age | 65 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 15, 1959 (Minna, Nigeria) |
| Birthday | March 15 |
| Town/City | Minna, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigeria |
Ben Okri’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Ben Okri was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
Booker Prize for Fiction award winning poet and Novelist who acted as the poetry Editor of West Africa magazine. He was also a regular contributor to BBC World Service from 1983-1985.
He studied comparative literature at Essex University.
In 2014, he was made an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford.
He is the son of Silver Oghekeneshineke Loloje Okri and Grace Okri.
His post-modern works have been compared to those of Salman Rushdie.
