Background
Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti City in 1965.
Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti City in 1965.
University of Burgundy. Paris West University Nanterre Louisiana Défense. University of Caen Lower Normandy.
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 for Le Monde Diplomatique. Waberi worked as an English teacher at Caen, France, where he has lived for most of time since 1985.
In 2005, he was chosen amongst the "50 Writers of Future" by French literary Magazine Lire.
In 2006 to 2007, Waberi lived in Berlin as a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2007, he was a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center Humanities Fellow at Wellesley College, United States of America. His work is translated into more than ten languages. In 2007, Waberi participated in the international Stock Exchange of Visions project
In May and June 2012, he was a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a 2013 recipient of an National Education Association Literature Translation Fellowship for translating his book of poetry.
He teaches now French and Francophone Studies and Creative Writing at George Washington University, Washington District of Columbia.