Teju Cole
Teju Cole (an haife shi a ranar 27 ga Yuni, 1975) marubuci ne Ba'amurke, mai daukar hoto, kuma masanin tarihin fasaha . 

Cole marubucin littafin labari ne, Kowace Rana Ta Barawo ne (2007)  ; wani labari, Open City (2012)  ; tarin makala, Sanannun Abubuwa (2016) , da littafin hoto, Punto d'Ombra (2016); wanda aka buga a Turanci a shekarar 2017 azaman Makaho Makaho )  .

Rayuwa ta ƙashin kai da ilimi 
An haifi Cole a Kalamazoo, Michigan, iyayen sa ƴan Najeriya ne, kuma shi ne ɗan fari a cikin yara huɗu.  Cole da mahaifiyarsa sun dawo Lagos, Nijeriya, jim kaɗan bayan haihuwarsa,   inda mahaifinsa ya haɗu da su bayan ya karɓi MBA daga Jami'ar Yammacin Michigan .  Cole ya koma Amurka yana da shekara 17 ya halarci Jami’ar Western Michigan University tsawon shekara guda, sannan ya koma Kwalejin Kalamazoo, inda ya sami digiri na farko a 1996.  Bayan barin makarantar likita a Jami'ar Michigan, Cole ya shiga cikin shirin tarihin fasaha na Afirka a Makarantar Gabas ta Gabas da Nazarin Afirka a London,   sannan ya bi digirin digirgir a cikin tarihin zane-zane a Jami'ar Columbia .   Shine Babban Malami na Gore Vidal na Aikin Rubuta Halitta  a Jami'ar Harvard kuma a halin yanzu yana zaune a Cambridge, Mass.

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Wallafa 
Cole shi marubucin littattafai da dama, a cikinsu akwai littafin labari, Kowace Rana Ta thearawo ;  labari, Open City ;  tarin labarai sama da 40, Sanannnu da Abubuwan Ban mamaki;  da littafin hoto, Punto d'Ombra (2016) (wanda aka buga shi cikin Turanci a shekarar 2017 a matsayin Makaho Mai Makaho ). Salman Rushdie ya bayyana Cole a matsayin "daga cikin haziƙan marubutan zamaninsa". 

Ya kasance Fitaccen Marubuci a Gida a Kwalejin Bard .  Daga Yuni zuwa Nuwamba 2014 ya kasance "marubuci a mazaunin" na Literaturhaus Zurich [ de ] da PWG Foundation [ de ] a cikin Zurich .

Littafin Every day is for the Thief 
An buga shi a 2007, littafin farko na Cole, Kowace Rana na Thiarawo, labarin wani saurayi ne da ya shirya kai ziyara ƙasarsa ta haihuwa, Najeriya, bayan ya kwashe shekaru goma sha biyar.  Littafin yana karantawa kamar littafin rubutu na tafiya wanda yake bayanin yadda rayuwa take a cikin garin Legas da kuma hanyar, yana fallasa yadda yanayin demokradiyya na rashawa zai iya shafar kowa ba tare da la'akari da matsayin su a cikin al'umma ba.

Bude Gari 
An rubuta shi a cikin 2011 kuma an buga shi a cikin 2012, littafin ya mai da hankali ne kan "Baƙin haure dan Najeriya Julius, wani matashi dalibi mai karatun digiri na biyu da ke karatun ilimin hauka a birnin New York, ya kwanan nan ya rabu da budurwarsa kuma ya ɓata lokacinsa sosai don yawo a cikin Manhattan . Mafi yawan cibiyoyin Open City suna kan tunanin Julius yayin da yake zage-zage ko'ina cikin garin, yana zana abubuwan da ke faruwa a kusa da shi da kuma abubuwan da suka gabata waɗanda ba zai iya taimakawa ba sai dai ya tsaya a kansu. Da tsananin kokarin neman kakarsa, Julius ya kwashe makonni da yawa a Belgium, inda yake yin abokai masu ban sha'awa. A kan hanyarsa, yana saduwa da mutane da yawa kuma galibi yana yin doguwar tattaunawa da su game da falsafa da siyasa. Da alama yana maraba da waɗannan tattaunawar. Bayan ya dawo New York, ya sadu da wata budurwa 'yar Nijeriya wacce ta canza yanayin yadda yake ganin kansa. ” 

Open City an fassara shi zuwa cikin harsuna goma kuma ya karɓi kyakkyawan nazari daga masu sukar adabi. James Wood a cikin New Yorker ya kira shi "kyakkyawa, da dabara, kuma, ƙarshe, sabon labari na asali".  A cewar The New York Times, "mahimmancin labarin ya ta'allaka ne da gaskiyarsa."  The Independent ta bayyana Open City a matsayin "hypnotic", "transfixing", da kuma "mai ban mamaki halarta a karon" don Cole,  yayin da Time take magana a kan littafin a matsayin "aiki ne na gaske, mai kwazo da wayewa da kuma mallakar salon salo da kuma jan hankali . "

Littafin Known and Strange Things 
A shekara ta 2016, Cole ya wallafa f makalar sa ta farko . Wadda yake  rubutawa ga jaridar New York Times, mawakiya Claudia Rankine ta kira ta da cewa "tafiya ce mai muhimmanci kuma mai ban tsoro,"  kuma ya keɓance shi musamman, rubutunsa kan daukar hoto, inda ya "bayyana sha'awar sha'awarsa da kuma sonsa. na gani. "

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