Waberi worked as an English teacher at Caen, France, where he has lived for most of his time since 1985. He was awarded with several honours including the Stefan-George-Preis 2006, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, the
Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1996 and the Prix biennal " Mandat pour la liberté " – offered by
PEN France, 1998. In 2005, he was chosen amongst the "50 Writers of Future" by the French literary magazine
Lire. From 2006 to 2007, Waberi lived in Berlin as a guest of the
DAAD. In 2007, he was a Donald and Susan Newhouse Center Humanities Fellow at
Wellesley College, USA. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. In 2007, Waberi participated in the international
Stock Exchange of Visions project. In 2010, he was a William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and a visiting professor at
Claremont McKenna College, California, a jury member of the
International Dublin Literary Award and an Academie de France
Villa Medici fellow in Roma, Italy. In May and June 2012, he was a visiting professor at the
University of Innsbruck, Austria. His novel
Transit was a finalist for the
Best Translated Book Award (2013). Nancy Naomi Carlson is a 2013 recipient of an
NEA Literature Translation Fellowship for translating his book of poetry. He teaches now French and Francophone Studies and Creative Writing at
George Washington University, Washington DC. During the fall semester of 2023, he held the visiting professor chair of "World Literature" at the
University of Bern in Switzerland. The subject of his weekly seminar was "
Afrofuturism" – the artistic movement that explores identities, forms of expression, and future visions within the African diaspora. ==Bibliography==