Writer, photographer and art historian
He grew up in Nigeria and settled in the US in 1992. He debuted in 2007 with the novella Every Day is for the Thief (2016), which was followed by Open City (2011), his acclaimed first novel, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.
