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    Prominent Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole has another book on the way titled Tremor which will explore the life of a West African photographer and his encounters with violence in many forms. The book will be published by Random House on October 17, 2023.

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    Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.

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    Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer and photographer. He has published a novella Every Day Is for the Thief (2007), a novel Open City (2011), an essay collection Known and Strange Things (2016), and a photobook Punto d’Ombra (2016) which was published in English as Blind Spot in 2017. He won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for Open City in 2012.

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