NPR: Ben Okri https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=368435481 Ben Okri en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Thu, 22 May 2025 14:07:30 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: Ben Okri https://www.npr.org/tags/368435481/ben-okri Book News: Booker Winner Ben Okri Nabs Bad Sex Prize The 2014 Bad Sex in Fiction award has picked its winner: Okri's novel <em>The Age of Magic,</em> which not so subtly features a skyrocket in flight. Also: Raymond Chandler's lost comic opera is discovered. Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:45:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/04/368435032/book-news-booker-winner-ben-okri-nabs-bad-sex-prize https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/04/368435032/book-news-booker-winner-ben-okri-nabs-bad-sex-prize The Famished Road. It remains to be seen whether that prize and this new one will share the same shelf at home.'/>

The 2014 Bad Sex in Fiction award has picked its winner: Okri's novel The Age of Magic, which not so subtly features a skyrocket in flight. Also: Raymond Chandler's lost comic opera is discovered.

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