Ben Okri, the Booker Prize winning author, has accused his editor of "exaggerating his own importance" after he claimed to have rewritten some of the writer's work.

Mr Okri, 52, added that he felt sorry for a man who feels it necessary "to claim the hard-won achievement of others".
The literary row, just the latest between authors and editors, broke out after Robin Robertson, 58, spoke to the Daily Telegraph earlier this year in an article about poetry.
During the article, Mr Robertson, a celebrated editor and poet in his own right, made the claim that he had to rewrite the dialogue of the London-based Nigerian in the short story collection "Stars of the New Curfew".

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