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), and a photobook Punto d'Ombra (2016; published in English in 2017 as Blind Spot). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."
Teju Cole
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- June 27, 1975
