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Ben Okri (2018 Event)
2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival
English - August 29, 2018 09:34 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBBooks Arts edbookfest charlotte square Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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ENIGMATIC VISIONARY
Which came first, the image or the word? It’s hard to tell in The Magic Lamp, Ben Okri’s collaboration with painter Rosemary Clunie. Subtitled Dreams of Our Age, it’s a collection of twenty-five enchanting, haunting stories, each accompanied by a dreamlike painting. In this illustrated book, the Man Booker Prize-winner draws once again on the lineage of Arabian Nights and African mythology.
Supported by the Hawthornden Literary Retreat