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 …
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Citation: Steckenbiller, Christiane. "Open City". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 June 2016 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35685, accessed 26 November 2024.]
