Exile's Kingdom

Vladimir Nabokov V.S. Naipaul Salman Rushdie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Henry James Mohsin Hamid Marjane Satrapi Rohinton Mistry 1843 USA 1899 Russia 1932 Trinidad 1947 India 1971 Pakistan 1969 Iran 1952 India 1916 England 1977 Switzerland 1977 Nigeria England 1876/ Personal 18 Ukraine 1917/ Political England 1919/ Political Germany 1922/ Professional France 1937/ Political USA 1940 / Political Switzerland 1961/ Personal England 1958/Educational USA 2000/ Commercial USA 1974-1980 Personal USA 1989-2001/ Educational England 2001-2009/ Professional England 1950/ Educational Austria 1983-1988 / Political, Educational Canada 1975/ Educational 14 USA 1966/ Educational 14* France 1994/ Political 3* 11 Portrait Of A Lady (1880) A Bend in The River (2979) Such A Long Journey (1991) The Satanic Verses (1988) Half of A Yellow Sun (2006) Persepolis (20o0) 18* The Reluctant Thomas Mann Fundamentalist (2007) Kiran Desai Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) 1875 Germany 1972 india 1955 Switzerland Switzerland 1933/ Political USA 1939/ Political Switzerland 1952a/ Personal England 1985/ Personal USA 1986/ Educational The Inheritance of Loss (2006) Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns (1939) Junot Diaz James Joyce 1968 Dominican Republic 1882 Ireland 1941 Switzerland USA 1974/ Personal Austria-Hungary 1904 / Professional Switzerland 1915/ Professional France 1920 / Personal Zurich 1940 / Political The Brief Wondrous Life of Osar Wao (2007) Ulysses (1922) Author EXILE'S KINGDOM b. country d. country Literature is peppered with authors who have found an emigrated to, when /reason for move # works published in exile audience by writing about their homeland from which they are exiled. Here are arguably the dozen most famous writers in exile, where they moued to, why, and their key novel. O critical / O nostalgic/ O ambiguous about homeland key work (*novels only)