Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ben Okri NPG x88223

© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mark Gerson

Nigerian novelist, poet, short story and script writer. Okri was schooled in London as a child but his family returned to Nigeria on the eve of the Nigerian Civil War. The war was to leave a deep mark on Okri's life. After finishing secondary school, and being too young to start university, he read his way through his father's library and began that summer to write. Okri returned to England in 1978 to study at Essex University, graduating with a degree in Comparative Literature. He... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.