Writing in a language that's not one's own

French-language authors whose mother tongue is not French. In no particular order:

Casanova, Madame de Noailles (Romanian), Anna Moi (Vietnamese), François Cheng , Tierno Monembo , Aki Shimazaki (Japanese), Seymus Dagtekin, (a Turkish Kurd), Samuel Beckett (Irish), Julien Green, Eugène Ionesco (Romanian, mother French), Milan Kundera (Czech), Camara Laye, Léopold Senghor (Senegalese), Cioran (Romanian), Tristan Tzara (Romanian), Elie Wiesel, Atiq Rahimi (from Afghanistan), Eduardo Manet (Cuban), Brina Svit (Slovenian), David I. Grossvogel (American), Tahar Ben Jelloun, Amin Maalouf, Andrei Makine, Jonathan Littell (American), Hector Bianciotti Argentinian), Silvia Baron Supervielle (Argentinan), Vassilis Alexakis (Greek), Andrei Makine (Russian), Anne Weber (Germany), Bjorn Larsson (Swedish), Ying Chen (Chinese), Fouad Laroui, (born in Morocco, based in the Netherlands writing in French and Dutch), Andrei Vieru (Russian-Romanian), Arthur Adamov (Russian, of Armenian origin), Henri Troyat (Lev Tarassov), Michel Del Castillo (Spanish, father French), Julia Kristeva (Bulgarian), Oscar Wilde (one play – Salomé).

The Phenomenon of Authors Whose First Language Isn’t French Writing In French

English-language authors whose mother tongue is not English.

Achebe, Chinua
Arlen, Michael
Asimov, Isaac
Bellow, Saul
Brodsky, Joseph
Bronowski, Jacob
Broumas, Olga
Budrys, Algis
Codrescu, Andrei
Conrad, Joseph
Dinesen, Isak
Heym, Stefan
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Kakuzo, Okakura
Kerouac, Jack
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Koestler, Arthur
Kosinski, Jerzy
Lewis, Saunders
Limonov, Eddie
Lin Yu-tang
Lowe, Adolph
Lundwall, Sam
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mukherjee, Bharati
Nabokov, Vladimir
Narayan, R. K.
Nin, Anais
Rand, Ayn
Sabatini, Rafael
Seth, Vikram
Skvorecky, Josef
Smirnov, Yakov
Soyinka, Wole
Stoppard, Tom
van Gulik, Robert
Vincinzey, Stephen
Wertenbaker, Timberlake
Wongar, Banumbir
Zukofsky, Louis

German

Some winners of Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, a German award to foreign writers recognized for their contribution to German culture.

Adel Karasholi, (Syrian), Galsan Chinag, (Mongolian), Yoko Tawada (Japanese), Maria Cecilia Barbetta (Argentinian), Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Franco Biondi, Gino Chiellino, Zehra Cirak (Turkish), György Dalos, Dante Andrea Franzetti, Zsuzsanna Gahse, Yüksel Pazarkaya, Ilma Rakusa, Luo Lingyuan (Chinese), Tzveta Sofronieva (Bulgarian) Michael Stavaric, Saša Stanišić.