Contributor

Abdourahman A. Waberi

Contributor

Abdourahman A. Waberi

Abdourahman Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in Djibouti in 1965. Waberi’s works include The Land without Shadows, Transit, and In the United States of Africa....

His first volume of stories, The Land without Shadows, won Belgium’s Royal Academy of French Language and Black Africa’s Grand Literary Prize for French speakers. His articles and reviews have appeared in many international publications. He is currently a Visiting Professor in Africana Studies and the Humanities at the Claremont Colleges in California.

“I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself”—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story

By Filip Springer, Francisco Cantú, Abdourahman A. Waberi & Karolina Ramqvist

For the Lit Crawl portion of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, Words Without Borders and Slice Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story written by four international…

Translated by Sean Gasper Bye, Francisco Cantú, José Garcia, David Ball, Nicole Ball & Saskia Vogel

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Abdourahman A. Waberi

Abdourahman A. Waberi

Articles by Abdourahman A. Waberi

“I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself”—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story

From “Passage of Tears”

Rwanda: The Flame of Hope

From “In Ben’s Footsteps”