tourist sometimes a director and now as a book author just sixty year old lives and works in london dockery was born in one area and spent his formative years between the two countries after finishing high school chris studied comparative literature at essex university passion for literature started at an early age. the real turning point for me was my father's library. bought a great collection of books from england. and my job was to dust every day. my father was totally lost to the books but don't read them and. in one nine hundred ninety one it was awarded the prestigious man booker prize for fiction for his novel the famished wrote the book addresses the coexistence of the spiritual and material worlds through the life of a spirit child living in an unnamed nigerian city. the river became a road. on the road branched out to the whole world. because the road was once a river it was always hungry. the author is in berlin to headline the african book festival which starts on thursday and of crete is a philosopher a mesmerizing and thought provoking author and someone who's not afraid to s