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Tuesday 07 September 2010
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Cover of Passage des larmesPassage des larmes (Passage of tears)

An exile returns home to Djibouti, on behalf of the country that took him in, believing he could avoid the dangers he fled. But as this true-to-life suspense novel shows, past and present dangers often spin overlapping webs that cannot be escaped.
After a decade of exile in Montreal, Djibril returns to Djibouti on a mission to analyze (...)

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Actualités

abdourahman-waberi-and-the-lord-mayorInternational IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2010

This year there were five members of the international panel of judges chaired by Hon. Eugene R. Sullivan:
Anne Fine - Anatoly (Anthony) Kudryavitsky - Eve Patten - Zoë Wicomb and Abdourahman Waberi.
Abdourahman Waberi is a major writer from the African nation of Djibouti. An essayist, novelist, teacher, poet and short story writer, Waberi is partially based in France and has been named one of the 50 Writers of the Future by the French literary mag Lire. His latest novel in English, “In the United States of Africa” is a bold and fantastic vision of an Africa never before presented in literature.

 

Photo de la Villa Médicis à RomeAbdourahman Waberi est pensionnaire de l'Académie de France à Rome, la Villa Medici, durant la session 2010 - 2011.

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March 28, 2007

What and who are ’French writers’ ? New York Times

Alan Riding, International Herald Tribune/New York Times,

With French long engaged in a losing battle against English around the world, a new way of fighting back has been proposed by a multinational group of authors who write in French : Uncouple the language from France and turn French literature into "world literature" written in French.
For guardians of the language of Molière, Voltaire and Victor Hugo, this is (...)

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Biographie

Photo of Abdourahman WaberiAbdourahman A. Waberi is novelist, essayist, poet, academic and short-story writer. 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 for Le Monde Diplomatique. He has been a member (...)

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