Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
Tunde Ekwueme, a Nigerian American professor of music at Harvard, moves through Cambridge, teaches his students, tends his relationship, and meditates on photography, history, violence, and the experience of living in two worlds simultaneously. A quiet, essayistic novel about perception, race, and the life of the mind. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction.
About the Author
Teju ColeNigerian-American
Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, art historian, and photographer. Born in Michigan in 1975 to Nigerian parents, he grew up largely in Nigeria before returning to the United States for higher education. He holds degrees from Kalamazoo College, New York University, and completed his doctorate in art history at Columbia University. Read more →
