Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer and photographer
- Born
- 27 June 1975, Kalamazoo
- Age
- 51
- Birth name
- Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa
Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian 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."
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