![]() ![]() In 2007, he was a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center Humanities Fellow at Wellesley College, USA. In 2006 to 2007, Waberi lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD. In 2005, he was chosen amongst the "50 Writers of Future" by French literary magazine Lire. He was awarded with several honors including the Stefan-George-Preis 2006, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1996 and the Prix biennal " Mandat pour la liberté " – offered by PEN France, 1998. Waberi worked as an English teacher at Caen, France, where he has lived for most of time since 1985. He has been a member of the International Jury for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage (Berlin, Germany), 2003 & 2004. Waberi worked as a literary consultant for Editions Le Serpent à plumes, Paris, and as a literary critic for Le Monde Diplomatique. He went to France in 1985 to study English literature. Waberi ( Somali: Cabdiraxmaan Waaberi) is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic and short-story writer from Djibouti.Ībdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti City in the French Somali Coast, the current Republic of Djibouti. Waberi at the Festivaletteratura, Mantua (2008)Ībdourahman A. ![]()
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