DeborahAD1995 published a post on Ko-fi.com
Exophony means writing in a language which isn't your mother tongue. While this may appear daunting in the Anglophone world, the fact is that people have written exophonically for centuries-- if not millennia.
Think of the age when Latin was the lingua franca in Europe. Yet those who wrote famous treatises in Latin, such as Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, spoke other tongues: English, French, German, etc. The same applies in other parts of the world, like the dominance of Arabic across the Middle East and North Africa. The various ethnic groups conquered by the Arabs became exophonic writers in order to publish works.
I did not so much discover exophonic writing, as simply learn the name. Beforehand, I had written sporadically in French since leaving school. In September 2019, I began a journal logging my progress in different foreign languages. Only right before National November Writing Month did I discover the term exophonic writing, along with a number of famous writers.
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