Abdourahman Waberi

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Abdourahman A. Waberi (born 1965 in Djibouti) is an award-winning Somalian writer, as well as a high-school English teacher. He left Somalia in 1985 to study in Caen, where he dedicated his thesis to Nuruddin Farah, completing it in 1994.

His first novel, Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Land Without Shadow") was released in 1994, winning the Grand Prize for new French speakers from the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature, in Belgium. The novel "painted a kaleidoscopic image of famine and war".

More recently, he wrote Moisson de Crânes ("Harvest of Skulls") in 2000, about the Rwandan genocide. His most recent novel was released in 2001, entitled Rift Routes Rails ("Rifts, Roads, Railways"), about African tradition.

He currently lives and writes in France.

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Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Land Without Shadow"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1994, ISBN 2-908957-31-0
Balbala, Serpent à plumes, Paris 1998, 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'Harmatta, Paris 1997, 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, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7085-0231-X
Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-076023-5
Transit, Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-076874-0
Moisson de crânes ("Harvest of Skulls"), Serpent à plumes, Paris 2004 ISBN 2-7538-0020-0