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12-Aug-2007, 17:39
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Hi,
I am eager to learn names of writers for who English is/was a second or a foreign language and who write/wrote in English. I mean: they write/wrote, not are/were translated. I'd be obliged for any names.
Let me start with the first one, the only one I am aware of: Joseph Conrad, a Polish writer.
Thanks,
Nyggus 
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14-Aug-2007, 11:29
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What a stupid I am. I'm just reading Vladimir Nabokov's book, and isn't he one of the greatest writers of this type? |
14-Aug-2007, 14:21
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He certainly is. |
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I wonder what George Bernard Shaw's first language was? English or Deutsch? if it was the latter, he was also one of them. |
17-Aug-2007, 20:02
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Originally Posted by Altar_II  I wonder what George Bernard Shaw's first language was? English or Deutsch? if it was the latter, he was also one of them. |
English. What makes you think it might be German? |
18-Aug-2007, 03:43
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Originally Posted by Anglika English. What makes you think it might be German? | Thank you for telling me :)
I got some misinformation about his birthplace... though now I know that he was born in his Irish hometown. |
27-Aug-2007, 20:44
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And there was Jerzy Kosinski, another Polish writer writing in English... |
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Originally Posted by nyggus Hi,
I am eager to learn names of writers for who English is/was a second or a foreign language and who write/wrote in English. I mean: they write/wrote, not are/were translated. I'd be obliged for any names.
Let me start with the first one, the only one I am aware of: Joseph Conrad, a Polish writer.
Thanks,
Nyggus |
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