French author writing in ... Urdu

       After English, French seems to be the most common foreign language for writers from other countries to adopt, from Chinese authors such as Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian to American author Jonathan 'The Kindly Ones' Littell, but here's a still much less-seen leap: as Issam Ahmed reports in the Daily Star Julien Columeau has become: "one of the country's most innovative Urdu novelists".
       Pretty neat -- though given how little gets translated from Urdu into English, I'm not sure we'll be seeing any of this any time soon.