# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Audience with Sir Ben Okri
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:45 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Booker Prize-winning poet, novelist and essayist Sir Ben Okri joins Matthew Stadlen in conversation.

About Sir Ben

Sir Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, playwright and cultural activist. He is known for the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, the first in a trilogy, and Astonishing the Gods, which was selected as one of the BBC’s ‘100 novels that shaped our world’, as well as collections of short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 28 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won numerous international prizes. He was a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was awarded a Knighthood in 2023. His latest books are Waking The Warriors and The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/events/an-audience-with-sir-ben-okri/200030628310650
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **location**: Salisbury Arts Centre
- **full address**: Salisbury Arts Centre

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is An Audience with Sir Ben Okri being held?
  - **A:** An Audience with Sir Ben Okri takes place on Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:45 pm at Salisbury Arts Centre.
- **Q**: Who is organizing An Audience with Sir Ben Okri?
  - **A:** An Audience with Sir Ben Okri is organized by Wiltshire Creative.

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