نبذات Teju Cole

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." Personal life and education Cole was born in Kalamazoo, Mic...

Teju Cole, né Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa le 27 juin 1975 à Kalamazoo, au Michigan, est un écrivain, photographe et historien de l’art nigérian-américain. Biographie Il obtient le Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (en) 2012 et le Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt (de) 2012 pour Open City. Œuvres Open city, 2011- traduit en français sous le titre Open city par Guillaume-Jean Milan, Paris, Éditions Denoël, coll. « Denoël & d’ailleurs », 2012, 347 p. (ISBN 97...