Teju Cole

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Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella Every Day Is for the Thief, a novel Open City, an essay collection Known and Strange Things, and a photobook Punto d'Ombra. Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2021*

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