Teju Cole
USA
Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975, and grew up in Nigeria before returning to the United States as a teenager. During his time as Writer-in-Residence in Zurich, his response to James Baldwin’s essay about Leukerbad, Stranger in the Village, appeared first in ‘The New Yorker’ and then in the ‘Tages-Anzeiger Magazin’.
Teju Cole’s books Open City (2012) and Every Day is for the Thief (2007) are considered exceptional works of recent American literature. He is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University. Perception and perceptual phenomena are at the core of his creative productions. Whether he is writing novels or essays or taking photographs, he is always concerned with the precise observation and a questioning and critical scrutiny of what he sees. His latest novel Tremor (2023) searches almost osmotically for ways to think about fiction and lived experience in conjunction. In addition, an edition pairing the essays Stranger in the Village (Baldwin, 1953) and Schwarzer Körper (Black Bodies, Cole, 2014) will be published this year.
Tremor. Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Anna Jäger. Claassen Verlag 2024
James Baldwin / Teju Cole, Fremder im Dorf / Schwarzer Körper. Aus dem Englischen von Miriam Mandelkow und Uda Strätling. Kampa Verlag 2024
Blinder Fleck. Aus dem Englischen von Uda Strätling. Hanser Berlin 2018
Jeder Tag gehört dem Dieb. Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Christine Richter-Nilsson. Hanser Berlin 2015, Ullstein Taschenbuch 2024
Open City. Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Christine Richter-Nilsson. Suhrkamp 2012, Ullstein Taschenbuch 2024
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