{"id":417,"date":"2012-03-06T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=417"},"modified":"2024-03-13T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T20:42:28","slug":"teju-cole-wins-2012-hemingway-foundationpen-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/teju-cole-wins-2012-hemingway-foundationpen-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Teju Cole Wins 2012 Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-418 is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/ejuCole.jpg\" alt=\"Teju Cole\" class=\"wp-image-418\" \/><figcaption>Author Teju Cole. Photo Credit: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Obayemi Onafuwa \u201996<\/strong>, who writes under the pen name&nbsp;Teju Cole<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for&nbsp;<em>Open City<\/em>. Cole will receive a $10,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England, as well as a residency in The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho\u2019s MFA Program in Creative Writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hemingway award was founded in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, widow of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway. Patrick Hemingway, the writer\u2019s son, will present the prestigious literary award to Cole on April 1 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past recipients of the award include Edward P. Jones, who received an honorary degree from Kalamazoo College in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cole is a writer, art historian, and street photographer. Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, he was raised in Nigeria and currently lives in Brooklyn. He received his B.A. in studio art and art history from Kalamazoo College; his M.A. in African art history from the University of London; and his M.Phil. in 16th-century northern European visual culture from Columbia University, where he is working on his Ph.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obayemi Onafuwa \u201996, who writes under the pen name&nbsp;Teju Cole,&nbsp;has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for&nbsp;Open City. 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Photo Credit: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obayemi Onafuwa \u201996<\/strong>, who writes under the pen name&nbsp;Teju Cole<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for&nbsp;<em>Open City<\/em>. Cole will receive a $10,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England, as well as a residency in The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho\u2019s MFA Program in Creative Writing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The Hemingway award was founded in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, widow of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway. Patrick Hemingway, the writer\u2019s son, will present the prestigious literary award to Cole on April 1 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Past recipients of the award include Edward P. Jones, who received an honorary degree from Kalamazoo College in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Cole is a writer, art historian, and street photographer. Born in the United States to Nigerian parents, he was raised in Nigeria and currently lives in Brooklyn. 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