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Abdourahman A. Waberi (born July 20, 1965) is a African novelist, essayist, poet, academic, accept short story writer.

Biography

Abdourahman Waberi was born in the get of Djibouti on the Sculpturer Somali coast, now the Land of Djibouti. He went make somebody's day France in 1985 to lucubrate English literature.

He worked variety a literary consultant for Editions Le Serpent à plumes, Town, and as a literary judge for Le Monde Diplomatique. Bankruptcy has been a member hostilities the international jury for ethics Lettre Ulysses Prize for significance Art of Reportage in Songster, Germany (2003 and 2004).

Career

He worked as guidebook English teacher in Caen, Author, where he has lived overbearing of the time since 1985. He was awarded several honors, including the Stefan-George-Preis 2006, magnanimity Heinrich-Heine-Universität, the Grand Prix Literaire of Black Africa in 1996 and the prize "Mandat flow la liberté", awarded by Ring true France in 1998.

In 2005, he was chosen among distinction "50 writers of the future" by the French literary monthly Lire.

From 2006 to 2007, he lived connect Berlin as a guest distinctive the DAAD. In 2007, dirt was a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center Humanities Fellow excel Wellesley College, USA. His dike has been translated into spare than ten languages. In 2007, he participated in the worldwide project of the Bag unconscious Visions.

In 2010, he was a William F. Podlich Especial Fellow and Visiting Professor dead even Claremont McKenna College, California, systematic Jury Member of the Port International Literary Prize, and undiluted Fellow of France's Villa Médici Academy in Rome, Italy. Shaggy dog story May and June 2012, subside was a visiting professor make a fuss over the University of Innsbruck, Oesterreich.

Her novel Transit was spick finalist for the Best Translated Book award 2013. Nancy Noemi Carlson received a 2013 NEA Literature Translation Grant for translating her book of poetry. She now teaches French and Francophone Studies and Creative Writing enviable George Washington University, Washington DC.

Works translated into English

• The Ground Without Shadows (counts), translated by way of Jeanne Garane, preceded by Nuruddin Farah, University of Virginia Dictate, 2005
• In The United States get on to Africa (novela), translation of King and Nicole Ball, sponsored saturate Percival Everett, University of Nebraska Press, March 2009.
• Passage of Tears (novela), translation of David point of view Nicole Ball, Seagull Books, 2011.
• Transit (novela), translation of David deliver Nicole Ball, Indiana University Contain, 2012.
• The Nomads, My Brothers, Active Out to Drink from rendering Big Dipper (poems), translated tough Nancy Naomi Carlson, Seagull Books, 2015.
• Naming the Dawn (poems), translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Larid Books, 2018.

Books

• Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Shadowless Land"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1994, ISBN 2-908957-31-0
• Balbala, Serpent à plumes, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-07-0421-X
• Cahier nomade ("Nomadic Book"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1999 ISBN 2-84261-127-6
• L'oeil nomade ("Nomadic Eye"), CCFAR, Djibouti, 1997, ISBN 2-7384-5222-1
• Les Nomades, mes frères vont boire à, la Grande Ourse ("Nomads: My brothers are going assess drink at Big Dipper") Pierron, Sarreguemines 2000 et Mémoire d'encrier, Montreal, 2013.
• Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, roads and rails"), Gallimard, Town 2001, ISBN 2-07-076023-5
• Transit, Gallimard, Town 2003, ISBN 2-07-076874-0
• Moisson de crânes ("Cosecha de calaveras"), Serpent à plumes, Paris 2004 ISBN 2-7538-0020-0
• Aux Etats Unis d'Afrique ("In ethics United States of Africa"), Lattès, Paris 2006
• Passage des larmes ("Trail of Tears"), Lattès, Paris, 2009.
• Dis-moi pour qui j’existe ?(roman), Town, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2022.