exophony
(n) the practice of writing in a language that is not one's mother tongue
(While the phenomenon has been known for ages, the term is relatively new: it was introduced within the field of literary and cultural studies by Susan Arndt, Dirk Naguschewski and Robert Stockhammer in 2007)
(While the phenomenon has been known for ages, the term is relatively new: it was introduced within the field of literary and cultural studies by Susan Arndt, Dirk Naguschewski and Robert Stockhammer in 2007)
Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, and Joseph Conrad are well-known examples of exophony.