Wordsmith in a foreign tongue

[Michel Ryckx]

Eugene Ionesco (Rumanian -> French).  The fact that he wrote in French 
defined his work.


mikebailey at speakeasy.net schreef:
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>> From: Ya Sam [mailto:takoitov at hotmail.com]
>> Subject: Wordsmith in a foreign tongue
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>> The success of Jonathan Littell's 900 page holocaust novel written in French 
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> news to me -- interesting.  Looks like he paid a lot of dues to get travel and life experience.
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>> made me once again aware of that strange yet persistent phenomenon: authors 
>> choosing to write in a second or even a third language. So how many such 
>> authors (of note) are at loose?
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> ... Joseph Conrad (Polish, wrote in English)
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>> Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, wrote in English)
>> Samuel Beckett (Irish, wrote in French)
>> Andrei Makine (Russian, writes in French)
>> Jerzy Kosinski (the most controversial one, Polish, wrote in English)
>> Tamas Aczel (Hungarian, wrote in English) (never read him, so don't know 
>> quality-wise)
>> I don't know whether Salman Rushdie counts, as nowhere did I read that Urdu 
>> was his first language.
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>> Anyone else you know?
>> There is an opinion that writing in a second language promotes creativity.
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> Peter Kropotkin did a lot of writing in English, didn't he?
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