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Teju Cole

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American writer

Person · Open Library

Works
21

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1919-03-17
Active to
1965-02-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
43
Total plays
200

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

    · 2009 · cited 19,922x

  2. Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy

    · 2007 · cited 17,937x

  3. Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

    · 2010 · cited 13,962x

  4. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

    · 2000 · cited 11,361x

  5. TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

    · 2013 · cited 11,182x

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Quotes

  • “I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.”
  • “I have mentally rehearsed a reaction for a possible encounter with such corruption at the airport in Lagos. But to walk in off a New York street and face a brazen demand for a bribe: that is a shock I am ill-prepared for.””
  • “Hey, hey young guy, why trouble yourself? They'll take your money anyway, and they'll punish you by delaying your passport. Is that what you want? Aren't you more interested in getting your passport than trying to prove a point?”
  • “I have taken into myself some of the assumptions of life in a Western democracy—certain ideas about legality, for instance, certain expectations of due process—and in that sense I have returned a stranger.””
  • “Help us fight corruption. If any employee of the consulate asks for a bribe or tip, please, have a discreet word with the Consul General”
  • “Policemen routinely stop drivers of commercial vehicles at this spot to demand bribe”

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Official website

Teju Cole

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Teju Cole is a photographer and writer who for the past twenty years has worked on problems of place, history, and personal freedom. His books—notable among them Open City , Blind Spot , and Fernweh —are published in twenty languages and his photography is widely exhibited and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Qatar Museums, among others. In 2017, he presented a solo performance at the Performa Biennial in New York City. He has been honored with the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he has been a finalist for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice). Cole has delivered numerous invited lectures including the 2019 Berlin Family Lectures at the University of Chicago and the 2024 Clarendon Lectures in English at the University of Oxford. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing in the English Department at Harvard University.

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