Ben Okri (2018 Event)
Which came first, the image or the word? It’s hard to tell in The Magic Lamp, Ben Okri’s collaboration with painter Rosemary Clunie. Subtitled Dreams of Our Age, it’s a collection of twenty-five enchanting, haunting stories, each accompanied by a dreamlike painting. In this illustrated book, the Man Booker Prize-winner draws once again on the lineage of Arabian Nights and African mythology. This event was recorded live at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Loading the player... if your browser supports audio and video it
should appear in a few moments.
Book Festival News
Book Festival reveals first author events for 2024Sunday 14 April
Listen to more
Robert Coover (2011 Event)
Alan Warner reading Sullivan's Ashes
Irma Kurtz (2014 event)
Margaret Atwood - event with Alice Munro
Tracey Thorn (2013 event)
Greg Proops (2015 Event)
Melvyn Bragg (2011 Event)
David Vann and Willy Vlautin (2010 event)
David Mitchell (2010 event)
Casey Gerald talks to DeRay Mckesson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival