Ben Okri

Described as “incapable of writing a bad sentence” by The Independent and “fiction’s master enchanter” by fellow Booker winner Marlon James, Sir Ben Okri is a vital voice in today’s world as a novelist, activist, essayist and poet. The Astonishing the Gods and The Famished Road author returns to the Festival with his modern fable Waking the Warriors, set in an uncomfortably familiar world populated by invading armies, terrified refugees and the tyrannical dictator of a great western nation.

Ben will be in conversation with Daniel Hahn.