Abdourahman Waberi

Abdourahman Waberi
Period: 2010-2010
Profession: Writer Born in 1965 in Djibouti, Abdourahman Waberi has since lived between France, the United States, where he taught literature, and Italy, where he is a resident at the Villa Médicis. Abdourahman A. Waberi left his country in 1985 to study in Caen, France. A writer and teacher, since 1994 he has published some eight works for Le Serpent à Plumes, Gallimard and Jean-Claude Lattès, which have been widely translated and awarded prizes. LIRE magazine named him one of the 50 most promising authors of the next ten years. Bibliography: Novels:
Passage des larmes (JC Lattès, 2009)
Aux Etats-Unis d’Afrique (JC Lattès, 2006)
Transit (Gallimard, 2003)
Balbala (Serpent à plumes, 1998) Short stories:
Enfants de la balle, Nouvelles d’Afrique, Nouvelles de foot (collective, (JC Lattès, 2010)
Dernières nouvelles de la Françafrique (collective, Vents d’ailleurs, 2003)
Rift, routes, rails (Gallimard, 2001)
Harvest of the skulls (Serpent à plumes, 2000)
Cahier nomade (Serpent à plumes, 1996 – Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique Noire)
Le pays sans ombre (Serpent à plumes, 1994 – Grand Prix de la nouvelle francophone de l’Académie Royale de Langue et Littérature Française de Belgique) Poetry :
Mes nomades, mes frères vont boire à la Grande Ourse, 1991-1998 (Hachette Education, 2000)
L’œil nomade, voyage à travers le pays Djibouti (L’Harmattan, 1997) Tale :
Bouh et la vache magique (Edicef / Hachette Livres, 2002, with Pascale Bougeault) Waberi’s novels have been translated into English, German and Italian. Wikipedia Biography