The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Happy birthday, Ben Okri! As a young man, the Nigerian poet and novelist moved to England to study literature. When funding for his scholarship abruptly fell through, he found himself homeless and desperate. Okri channeled this frustration into his writing, leading to the publication of his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, a couple of years later.
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