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Abdourahman A.Waberi, born in Djibouti in 1965, is the prize-winning author of several novels, including Le Pays sans ombre (Serpent à plumes, 1994; University of Virginia Press, 2005), Cahier nomade (Serpent à plumes, 1996), and Aux Etats-Unis d’Afrique (J.C. Lattès, 2006; published in the United States as In the United States of Africa by Bison Books in 2009; winner of a French Voices Award), which explore the linked themes of exile and nomadism. His short stories and articles have appeared in Grand Street, the Mail, the Guardian, the Literary Review, and Harper’s. He lives as a teacher and writer in France and also teaches literature in the United States at Wellesley College and at Claremont McKenna College.
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