Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker Prize

Vanessa Guignery is professor of contemporary British and postcolonial literature at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in France. She is author of Seeing and Being: Ben Okri's "The Famished Road" and editor of "The Famished Road" Ben Okri's Imaginary Homelands and of a special issue of Callaloo on Ben Okri. In 2022, she edited a special issue of the journal Études anglaises on contemporary Nigerian literature. She is coeditor (with Ryan Roberts) of Conversations with Julian Barnes, published by University Press of Mississippi.