Abdourahman Waberi

Djiboutian writer · Djibouti · On the map · Writers · Born 1965 · age 61

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic, and short-story writer from Djibouti.

Abdourahman Waberi is read about 18 times a day, in 17 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 14 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 155 days, one point a day.

A life in dates

2015Louis Guilloux PrizeAward2010Resident at the Villa MediciAward2003“Transit, Gallimard, Paris 2003”In their wordsRead the whole statement

2001“Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001”In their wordsRead the whole statement

1996Grand prix littéraire en poésie d'Afrique noireAward1994Prix Albert-BernardAward1965Born20 July 1965

Abdourahman Waberi

One statement

Languages are not owned / by nations but by the people who use them / and make them live.
A contribution for the WikiAfrica Literature Project, Own words

Louis Guilloux Prize2015

Resident at the Villa Medici2010

Grand prix littéraire en poésie d'Afrique noire1996

Prix Albert-Bernard1994

Country

Djibouti