Teju Cole

Teju Cole is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of the novel Open City (2011) and of Tremor (2023), his second novel. His other books include the novella Every Day Is for the Thief (2007), the essay collection Known and Strange Things (2016), and the photobook Punto d'Ombra (2016). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."