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King's first Birthday Honours list includes Anna Wintour and Vicky McClure

Davina McCall, Ian McEwan, Ken Bruce and Ian Wright also made the list

Wales Online · Jun 16, 2023

Ben Okri on swapping novels for painting: ‘Could these two great rivers of creativity merge?’

The Booker winner has teamed up with Scottish colourist Rosemary Clunie – to follow in the footsteps of word-and-picture masters Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jenny Holzer

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2023

Queen Consort urges writers to ‘roar like a lion’ at book charity launch

Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Booker Prize winner Ben Okri and writer and TV presenter Richard Osman were among the guests.

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Works by David Hockney and Rankin to be sold in anonymous auction for WaterAid

The sale includes pieces by multiple British artists that will be sold without the names of the artists on them.

The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2022

Festival of Thrift: Celebration of frugality booms as cost of living crisis bites

This might be the world’s only festival where a session on how to make your own cheap washing-up liquid was standing room only

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2022

Festival of Thrift: make-do-and-mend fair grows as cost of living bites

Ten-year-old festival in Redcar features swap shops, repair shops and workshops in art of thrift

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2022

Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2022

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Trust by Hernan Diaz and The Last Gift Of The Master Artists by Ben Okri.

The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2022

To Katya, aged seven, in a bomb shelter in Kyiv

In a new poem, the novelist and poet Ben Okri writes about what hope can grow out of the destruction in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022

Booker winner Ben Okri rewrites published novel to drive home message on slavery

The author tells why he spent five years on a new draft of his 2008 novel Starbook to give more emphasis to one of its key themes

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2022