His last script to go before the cameras was Children of Glory, in 2006, a Hungarian-language tale of the country's 1956 uprising against the Soviets and the symbolic water polo match the nations played out at the Olympics in the same year.
Al-Battal's exploits became the subject of two romances, the Arabic-language "Tale of Delhemma and al-Battal" (Sīrat Ḏāt al-Himma wa-l-Baṭṭāl) and the Turkish epic tradition of Sayyid Baṭṭāl Ghāzī.
In 2012, the same student earned an honorific mention for his tale "" (It's a Beautiful Day) from the Andrés Bello University's (Interschool Contest of Spanish-language Tales).
If you can read this language, the tale it tells is clear, decisive, and irrefutable; the facts presented about as prone to denial as sunrise.
Among them is the Albanian- and Italian-language transgender drama "Sworn Virgin," the Spanish-language romantic drama "Viaje" and Greek-language underworld tale "Wednesday 04:45".
Jo likes the baby but - in the sing-song language of this tale - it's still not the same as a dog.
Performing the folk standard "Black Water Side," he focused on the fairy tale language, his airy playing conjuring a pocket of supernatural space.
His visit to Far Rockaway in Queens, his first since becoming the Democratic nominee, offered a glimpse of how his lofty language about a tale of two cities would translate into on-the-ground policies as mayor.
Chanter is also a poet, and the novel's greatest power is not its patchy plot but its lyrical language: this unsettling tale about the mind in turmoil is awash with imagery of water as Chanter explores the sense of identity as fluid, truth a slippery thing, certainties dissolving.
And Diffenbaugh's language throughout this tale is as vivid and fresh and original as the floral bouquets that feature so cleverly into her plot.
