- Abdourahman Waberi
Abdourahman A. Waberi is
novelist , essayist,poet and short-storywriter .Abdourahman Waberi was born in
Djibouti City in 1965. He went to France in 1985 to study English literature. Waberi worked as a literary Consultant for Editions Le Serpent à plumes, Paris, and as a literary critic forLe Monde Diplomatique . He has been a member of the International Jury for the Lettre/Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage (Berlin, Germany), 2003 & 2004.Furthermore Waberi worked as an English teacher at Caen, France, where he has lived for most of time since 1985. He was awarded with several honors including the Stefan-Georg-Preis 2006, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique noire 1996 and the Prix biennal « Mandat pour la liberté » - offered by PEN France, 1998.In 2005 he was chosen amongst the “50 Writers of Future” by French literary Magazine "Lire".In 2006/2007, Waberi lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD. He is currently a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center Humanities Fellow at
Wellesley College , USA. His work is translated into more than ten languages.in 2007 Waberi participated in theStock Exchange of Visions project.Translated works
*The Land Without Shadows (short-story collection), translated by Jeanne Garane, prefaced by Nuruddin Farah, University Press of Virginia, 2005
*In The United States of Africa (novel), translation by David and Nicole Ball, University Press of Nebraska (forthcoming in 2008).Bibliography
* "Le Pays Sans Ombre" ("The Land Without Shadow"),
Serpent à plumes ,Paris , 1994, ISBN 2-908957-31-0
* "Balbala", Serpent à plumes, Paris1998 , ISBN 2-07-042121-X
* "Cahier nomade" ("Nomad's Book"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1999 ISBN 2-84261-127-6
* "L'oeil nomade" ("Nomad's Eye"),L'Harmattan , Paris1997 , ISBN 2-7384-5222-1
* "Les Nomades, mes frères vont boire à, la Grande Ourse" ("The Nomads: My brothers go drinking in the Grande Ourse")Hachette Education , Paris2000 , ISBN 2-7085-0231-X
* "Rift, routes, rails" ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"),Gallimard , Paris2001 , ISBN 2-07-076023-5
* "Transit", Gallimard, Paris2003 , ISBN 2-07-076874-0
* "Moisson de crânes" ("Harvest of Skulls"), Serpent à plumes, Paris2004 ISBN 2-7538-0020-0
* "Aux Etats Unis d'Afrique", Lattès, Paris2006 External links
* [http://www.abdourahmanwaberi.com/ Official site (mostly in French)]
* [http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/jury04/bio_waberi.html Brief biography (in French)]
* [http://www.stockexchangeofvisions.org/speaker.php?id=16 Stock Exchange Of Visions: Visions of Waberi Abdourahman (Video Interviews)]*imdb name|id=0199483|name=Abdourahman A. Waberiwikiquote
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