arts and culture and today we'll be devoting quite a bit of the show to the prize winning author ben acri joined me in the studio but that's not all. all series breaking bread continues this time our europe correspondent matters is needing dough in more ways than one from the e.u. smallest member states malta. but we begin with a nigerian author and poet who came to fame in the nine hundred ninety s. when he was the youngest ever winner of the booker prize one of the world's top literary awards since then he's written novels plays and poems and he may not call himself this but believe me he's a philosopher too he's here in berlin to open the african book festival and will be my guest in a minute of this report. back in berlin award winning writer been our creed visits the german capital every now and then sometimes as a tourist sometimes a director and now as a. sixty year old lives in london was born in one thousand and spent his formative years between the two countries after finishing high school well chris studied comparative literature at essex university passion for literature start