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Beyond the Mother Tongue: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry in Conversation with Artemii Levkoy on Exophony
Creative writing in foreign languages, also known as exophony or translingualism, has been practised since time immemorial. However, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, it multiplied and intensified as a consequence of patterns of migration, changing demographics and the rise of English as a global language. What challenges do writers and poets face when working in a foreign tongue? Does the language of writing shape an author's artistic identity or connect them to a specific literary tradition? With English as a well-established lingua franca, should authors strive to emulate native speakers, or is the "New" English literature becoming the new normal? Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, a rising star in the American literary scene, will address these and other questions in a conversation with our Culture Officer Artemii Levkoy.
Kristina was born in Armenia and raised in Soviet Russia. She moved to the USA in 1995, after having witnessed perestroika and the fall of the Iron Curtain, and became an established author overseas. Her first novel ‘Between Dog and Wolf’, published to rapturous reviews in the USA as The Orchard, captures the lives of four Soviet teenagers who are about to lose their country and one another and who struggle to survive, save their friendship, recover all that has been left behind.
The interview took place on 18 November 2023 at Worcester College, University of Oxford.
BY The Blue Lamp
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