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; published in English in 2017 as Blind Spot), and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having “opened a new path in African literature.”
Books in order of publication:
Every Day Is for the Thief – 2007
Open City – 2011
Known and Strange Things: Essays – 2016
Blind Spot – 2017
Fernweh – 2020
Golden Apple of the Sun – 2021
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time -2021
Tremor – 2023
Pharmakon. London: Mack, 2024
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