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Posted by bananas on Dec-08-2009 23:49:

some help please

Would you guys tell me some books written by non english/american born authors but in english?

Posted by Ania_xox on Dec-08-2009 23:58:

Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov (Russian)

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Polish)

Imaginary Maps - Mahasweta Devi (Bengali)
edit: I know she has an MA in English so I assume she wrote some of her later books in English. I don't remember whether or not this book was translated.

Posted by bananas on Dec-09-2009 00:02:

Yeah, that's what it is, I don't mean translated, I need it that the author himself had written it in english:[

Posted by Ania_xox on Dec-09-2009 00:12:

first two have been written by the authors themselves, in english

i just wasn't sure about the third one

Posted by bananas on Dec-09-2009 00:18:

fuck i feel stupid, i always thought that conrad was born in england and that nabakov wrote only in russian:[

Posted by Lira on Dec-09-2009 02:32:

That's not really usual, I guess... I thought Yevgeny Zamyatin had written "We" in English first but I was mistaken, and his book was first published as "Мы". Some people from India seem to write in English even if it's not their native language, but they're in a former colony so...