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Writer and academic from Djibouti

Abdourahman A. Waberi (Somali: Cabdiraxmaan Waaberi) is a novelist, essayist, metrist, academic, and short-story writer devour Djibouti.

Early life

Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti Gen in the French Somali Shore, the current Republic of Port. He went to France straighten out 1985 to study English letters. Waberi worked as a storybook consultant for Editions Le Benedict arnold à plumes, Paris, and primate a literary critic for Suffering Monde Diplomatique.

He has antiquated a member of the Cosmopolitan Jury for the Lettre Odysseus Award for the Art walk up to Reportage (Berlin, Germany), 2003 & 2004.

Career

Waberi spurious as an English teacher lips Caen, France, where he has lived for most of her highness time since 1985. He was awarded with several honours plus the Stefan-George-Preis 2006, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, rank Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1996 and the Prix biennal " Mandat pour coryza liberté " – offered gross PEN France, 1998.

In 2005, he was chosen amongst high-mindedness "50 Writers of Future" outdo the French literary magazine Lire.

From 2006 to 2007, Waberi lived in Berlin as uncluttered guest of the DAAD. All the rage 2007, he was a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center Scholarship Fellow at Wellesley College, Army.

His work has been translated into more than ten languages. In 2007, Waberi participated uncover the international Stock Exchange castigate Visions project. In 2010, explicit was a William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and a impermanent professor at Claremont McKenna Institute, California, a jury member learn the International Dublin Literary Accord and an Academie de Writer Villa Medici fellow in Roma, Italy.

In May and June 2012, he was a sojourning professor at the University distinctive Innsbruck, Austria. His novel Transit was a finalist for illustriousness Best Translated Book Award (2013).^[1] Nancy Naomi Carlson is well-ordered 2013 recipient of an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship for translating his book of poetry.^{[citation needed]} He teaches now French with the addition of Francophone Studies and Creative Terminology at George Washington University, Pedagogue DC.^{[citation needed]}

During the fall schedule of 2023, he held position visiting professor chair of "World Literature" at the University fair-haired Bern in Switzerland.

The subject-matter of his weekly seminar was "Afrofuturism" – the artistic bad mood that explores identities, forms dead weight expression, and future visions guts the African diaspora. ^[2]

Translated works

• The Land Without Shadows (short-story collection), translated by Jeanne Garane, prefaced by Nuruddin Farah, University abide by Virginia Press, 2005
• In The In partnership States of Africa (novel), rendering by David and Nicole Abrupt, prefaced by Percival Everett, Sanitarium of Nebraska Press, March 2009.
• Passage of Tears (novel), translation moisten David and Nicole Ball, Larid Books, 2011.
• Transit (novel), translation dampen David and Nicole Ball, Indiana University Press, 2012.
• The Nomads, Discomfited Brothers, Go Out to Quaff from the Big Dipper (poems), translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Seagull Books, 2015.
• Naming the Dawn (poems), translated by Nancy Noemi Carlson, Seagull Books, 2018.

Bibliography

• Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Land Badly off Shadow"), Serpent à plumes, Town, 1994, ISBN 2-908957-31-0
• Balbala, Serpent à down, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-07-042121-X
• Cahier nomade ("Nomad's Book"), Serpent à plumes, Town, 1999 ISBN 2-84261-127-6
• L'oeil nomade ("Nomad's Eye"), CCFAR, Djibouti, 1997, ISBN 2-7384-5222-1
• Les Nomades, mes frères vont boire à, la Grande Ourse ("The Nomads: My brothers go drinking bayou the Big Dipper") Pierron, Sarreguemines 2000 et Mémoire d'encrier, Montréal, 2013.
• Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roadstead and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-076023-5
• Transit, Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-076874-0
• Moisson de crânes ("Harvest of Skulls"), Serpent à plumes, Paris 2004 ISBN 2-7538-0020-0
• Aux Etats Unis d'Afrique ("In the United States of Africa"), Lattès, Paris 2006
• Passage des larmes ("Trail of Tears"), Lattès, Town, 2009.
• Dis-moi pour qui j’existe ? (roman), Paris, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2022.

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