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Teju Cole Reading 
General Event Information
Event Category:
Lectures/Literary
Price:
Free and open to the public * contact the Presenting Organization listed below for ticketing information  
Dates and Times:
February 22, 7:30PM-9:00PM
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Artist/Group:
Department of English University of Texas at San Antonio

Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, and street photographer. His first novel, "Open City" (Random House, 2011), won the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, the New York Society Library Award for Fiction, and the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is also the author of "Every Day Is For the Thief," a novella with photographs (Cassava Republic Press, 2007).

Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, Cole grew up in Nigeria. He received his M.Phil in 16th-century northern European visual culture from Columbia University, where he is working on his Ph.D. Currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, Cole is at work on a nonfiction narrative about Lagos called "Small Fates."
Venue Information
Venue:
UTSA Main Campus  
Address:
Harris Room, University Center III 2.212  
City:
San Antonio 
State:
TX 
Zip Code:
78249 
Country:
United States 
Telephone:
2104585216 
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University of Texas at San Antonio
Telephone:
(210) 458-5116
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not-for-profit
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