Extraterritorial

This is a colloquium about writers who did their literary career in a language other than the mother tongue or the official language of their countries. Classics like Conrad, Beckett, Nabokov, Cioran, among others, migrated in their literary production from their mother tongues to other languages. More recent illustrious examples have not been lacking: in his last novelistic stage, Kundera changes languages, abandoning Czech for French. This tradition of exophone writers has increased in recent years, for various reasons. At this discussion, moderated in Spanish by Fernando Iwasaki, several writers who have chosen to embark on a literary production in Spanish will exchange views on how their "border" condition influences their respective works.