Teju Cole

Exclusive appearance of probably the most dazzling shooting star of the US literary scene, who presents his brilliant New York novel Open City about a 21st century flâneur. The book has been acclaimed by the international press ("Book of the Year" in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian) and honored with numerous awards (including the International Literature Prize 2013), and the author has already been compared to literary heavyweights such as Sebald, Camus, and Naipaul.

Teju Cole, born in 1975, grew up in Nigeria and came to the United States as a teenager. He lives and works as a writer, photographer and art historian mostly in New York.