List of exophonic writers
This is a list of exophonic writers, i.e. those who write in a language not generally regarded as their first or mother tongue. For more on the phenomenon, see the main article Exophony.
The list below is deliberately brief, eschewing complex details of ethnicity/nationality and the like: the countries and/or languages given are merely a guide to the writer's principal origin and exophonic language - for details see the relevant article on the writer.
- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian-English novelist
- Sholem Aleichem, Russian/Hebrew-Yiddish playwright
- Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-British novelist
- Samuel Beckett, Irish-French playwright and novelist
- André Brink, (South African) English-Afrikaans novelist
- Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist
- Paul Celan, Romanian-German poet
- Eugen Chirovici ro:Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici, Romanian-British novelist[1]
- Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist
- Boris Fishman, Russian-American novelist[2]
- Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet
- Xiaolu Guo, Chinese-British novelist
- Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American novelist and journalist
- Stefan Heym, German-American novelist
- Rolando Hinojosa, American-Mexican novelist
- Khalid Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British novelist
- Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan-French novelist
- Ha Jin, Chinese-American poet and novelist
- Jack Kerouac, Quebecan-American novelist and poet
- Yasmina Khadra, Algerian-French novelist
- Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British author and journalist
- Agota Kristof, Hungarian-French novelist
- Milan Kundera, Czech-French writer
- Tahar Lamri, Algerian-Italian journalist and short story writer
- Claudileia Lemes Dias, Brazilian-Italian novelist[3]
- Yiyun Li, Chinese-American novelist and short story writer
- Jonathan Littell, American-French novelist
- Amin Maalouf, Lebanese-French novelist
- Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist
- C.W. Nicol, Welsh-Japanese writer
- Téa Obreht, Bosniak-American novelist
- Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese-English/French poet
- Atiq Rahimi, Afghan/Persian-French and English novelist and filmmaker
- Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist
- Elif Şafak, Turkish-English novelist and journalist
- Gary Shteyngart, Russian-American novelist
- Anna-Kazumi Stahl, American/German/Japanese-Spanish novelist[4]
- Tom Stoppard, Czech-British playwright
- Yoko Tawada, Japanese-German poet
- Héctor Tobar, Guatemalan-American journalist and novelist
- Voltaire, French philosopher who also wrote & published in English
- David Zoppetti, Swiss-Japanese novelist and journalist
References
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/12/uk-romanian-author-eugene-chirovici-book-of-mirrors-english
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/books/review/a-replacement-life-by-boris-fishman.html
- ↑ http://www.dw.com/en/non-native-authors-bring-fresh-perspective-to-language/a-14910840
- ↑ http://rawlangs.com/2012/12/27/multilingualism-and-literature-10-authors-who-write-in-other-languages/
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