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Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

This Is Not a Border

Michael Palin

Michael Ondaatje

J. M. Coetzee

Alice Walker

Ahdaf Soueif

William Sutcliffe

Teju Cole

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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."

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