Teju Cole, Open City

Christiane Steckenbiller (Colorado College)

Ed. by Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2012

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Teju Cole’s

Open City

was published in 2011 by Random House. Translated into twelve languages to date, the novel has won, among other honors, the New York City Book Award for Fiction (2011), the PEN/Hemingway Award (2012), the Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012), and the

Internationaler Literaturpreis

of the

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

in Berlin (2013).

Open City

was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. It was listed among

NPR’s

and

TIME Magazine’s

top ten books of 2011 and was named best book on many other end-of-the-year lists including

The New Yorker

The Atlantic

, and

The Economist

. Since the publication of the novel, which established Cole as…

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Citation: Steckenbiller, Christiane. "Open City". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 June 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35685, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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