Teju Cole
Teju Cole | |
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Cole in 2013 | |
| Born | Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa June 27, 1975 Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, photographer |
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| Notable works | Open City (2011) |
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Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); a novel, Open City (2011); an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016); a photobook, Punto d'Ombra (2016); and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."