Chehem Watta

Chehem Watta, a Djiboutian poet writing in French, teaches at the School of Medicine in Djibouti and was adviser to the President of the Republic on the fight against AIDS. In 1997 he published two poetry collections with L'Harmattan, then in 1999 Cahier de brouillon des poèmes du désert and in 2005 O pays, perle sur la langue, before turning to prose in 2008 with a novel, Amours nomades, and a narrative, L'Éloge des voyous.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetrySur les soleils de HouroudChehem Watta · 1997not translated into EnglishLiterature