The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. Waberi

The Djibouti writer Abdourahman Waberi’s name will be familiar to BTBA followers for his novel Transit, short-listed in 2013. Waberi, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Djibouti, Seagull Books) for miniature republic parsimonious poems Engravings. The judges for this year’s poetry award are: Jarrod Annis ( Greenlight Bookstore), Katrine Øgaard Jensen ( Words Without Borders), Tess Lewis (writer and translator), Becka McKay(writer and translator), and Deborah Smith (writer, translator, founder of Tilted Axis). The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper on . The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Sea Summit by Yi Lu, translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (China, Milkweed) Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. Waberi, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Djibouti, Seagull Books) The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipperby Abdourahman A. Silvina Ocampo by Silvina Ocampo, translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss (Argentina, NYRB)

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The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. Waberi