• Source: 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.

Kader Abdolah, Persian–Dutch writer, poet and columnist who writes in Dutch.
Chingiz Abdullayev, Azerbaijani-Russian writer
Melinda Nadj Abonji, Hungarian-German writer
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian native, who lived most of his later life in the United States. Native speaker of Igbo who wrote primarily in English.
Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz-Russian novelist
Gloria Alcorta, Argentinian-French writer
Sholem Aleichem, native of the Russian Empire who later emigrated to Switzerland. His native language was Yiddish but he also wrote in Hebrew and Russian.
Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-French novelist
Jeffrey Angles, American translator also known for his poetry and writing in Japanese.
Michael Arlen, Bulgarian born Armenian-British author
Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-British novelist
Augustine of Hippo, Numidian Berber philosopher writing in Latin
Ba Jin, Chinese and Esperanto author. He wrote three original works in Esperanto.
Samuel Beckett, Irish-French playwright and novelist
Costanzo Beschi, Italian-Tamil writer
José María Blanco White, Spanish-English writer
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish writer who wrote in both Danish and English
Irena Brežná, Slovak-Swiss writer and journalist
André Brink, (South African) English-Afrikaans novelist
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian born Sephardic writer, British citizen, writing in German
Paul Celan, Romanian born poet writing in Romanian and German
Chahan Chahnour, French-Armenian writer and poet
Eugen Chirovici, Romanian-British novelist
Don Mee Choi, Korean-American poet and translator
Heciyê Cindî, Kurdish-Armenian writer and linguist
Emil Cioran, Romanian-French writer
Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist
Adolfo Costa du Rels, Bolivian Spanish writer in French
Sahar Delijani, Iranian American novelist
David Dephy, Georgian-American poet novelist essayist multi-media artist
Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American writer
Raymond Federman, French-American novelist
Boris Fishman, Russian-American novelist
Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet
Julien Green, American writer who wrote in French
Xiaolu Guo, Chinese-British novelist
Najat El Hachmi, Moroccan-Catalan novelist and journalist
Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American novelist and journalist
Stefan Heym, German-American novelist
Rolando Hinojosa, American-Mexican novelist
Anselm Hollo, Finnish-American poet
Khalid Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist
Nancy Huston, Canadian novelist
Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British novelist
Fleur Jaeggy, Swiss-Italian writer
Helena Janeczek, German-Italian writer
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan-French novelist
Ha Jin, Chinese-American poet and novelist
Diego Jourdan Pereira, Uruguayan author who writes in English
Vahé Katcha, Armenian-French writer
Hans Keller, Austrian-British musicologist and essayist in English
Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet
Yasmina Khadra, Algerian-French novelist
Imam Ahmad Raza Khan, Indian Urdu-Arabic-Persian-Hindi Sufi poet and writer.
Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British author and journalist
Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American writer
Agota Kristof, Hungarian-French novelist
Milan Kundera, Czech-French writer
Jhumpa Lahiri, British-American writer, writing in Italian
Tahar Lamri, Algerian-Italian journalist and short story writer
Aga Lesiewicz, Polish-British novelist,
Hideo Levy, American-born Japanese language author
Yiyun Li, Chinese-American novelist and short story writer
Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian novelist
Jonathan Littell, American-French novelist
Ramon Llull, Majorcan, Catalan-Latin-Arabic writer
Lucian, second-century AD Syrian satirist, a native speaker of Syriac who wrote in Attic Greek
Amin Maalouf, Lebanese-French novelist
Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher who wrote exclusively in Russian
Yann Martel, Francophone Canadian writing in English
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist
C.W. Nicol, Welsh-Japanese writer
Téa Obreht, Bosniak-American novelist
Saïdeh Pakravan, Iranian (Persian)/French writer in English
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese-English/French poet
Edith Philips, American-French language writer and educator
Atiq Rahimi, Afghan/Persian-French and English novelist and filmmaker
Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist
Rafael Sabatini, Italian-British popular novelist in English
Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic and philosopher
Kurban Said, pseudonymous Azerbaijani novelist in German
Elif Şafak, Turkish-English novelist and journalist
George Santayana (Jorge de Santayana y Borrás), Spanish-American philosopher and novelist in English
Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Turkish-German writer
Shahan Shahnour, Armenian-French writer under penname Armen Lubin
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Turkish-Persian poet
Gary Shteyngart, Russian-American novelist
Shumona Sinha, Indian-French novelist
Saša Stanišić, Bosnian-German writer
Tom Stoppard, Czech-British playwright
Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist and essayist in English
Yoko Tawada, Japanese-German writer
Stefan Themerson, Polish-French-English novelist, poet, filmmaker
R.S. Thomas, English poet, Welsh memoirist and autobiographer
Matthew Tree, English-Catalan writer and novelist
Héctor Tobar, Guatemalan-American journalist and novelist
Ayelet Tsabari, Israeli-Canadian writer
Anselm Turmeda, Majorcan, Catalan-Arabic writer
Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and DADAist
Chika Unigwe, Nigerian-Flemish writer
Voltaire, French philosopher who also wrote and published in English
Elie Wiesel, Romanian (Yiddish-speaking) political activist and author, writing in French and English
Yang Yi, Chinese-Japanese author
Alessio Zanelli, Italian poet in English
David Zoppetti, Swiss-Japanese novelist and journalist
Andrea Bedford, Slavic author and novelist, writing in English




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