[Okri's] writing takes on the great riddles of existence – freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence – spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts

New York Times

A writer who refuses to stop asking the hardest questions

New York Times

Okri can distil language to its essence... his sentences have a careful simplicity, but not at the expense of eloquent writing'

Financial Times

Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence

Independent on Sunday

Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven

Ali Smith

Okri's writing has a light-as-air elegance

New Statesman