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  2. Noir fiction - Wikipedia

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    A sub-genre of noir fiction has been named "rural noir" in the US, [15] [16] and sometimes "outback noir" in Australia. [17] [18] Many rural noir novels have been adapted for film and TV series in both countries, such as Ozark, No Country for Old Men, [15] and Big Sky in the US, [19] and Troppo, The Dry, Scrublands, [17] and High Country (2024) in Australia.

  3. Nordic noir - Wikipedia

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    Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, is a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view and set in Scandinavia or the Nordic countries. Nordic noir often employs plain language, avoiding metaphor , and is typically set in bleak landscapes.

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  5. Camara Laye - Wikipedia

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    His most well-known works are The African Child (L'Enfant noir), a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and The Radiance of the King (Le Regard du roi). Both novels are among the earliest major works in Francophone African literature. Camara Laye later worked for the government of newly independent Guinea, but went into voluntary exile ...

  6. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    A grapheme is the basic functional unit of a writing system. Graphemes are generally defined as minimally significant elements which, when taken together, comprise the set of symbols from which texts may be constructed. [14] All writing systems require a set of defined graphemes, collectively called a script. [15]

  7. Category:Writing systems - Wikipedia

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    A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language The main article for this category is Writing system . See also: List of writing systems

  8. Charles Williams (American author) - Wikipedia

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    Hell Hath No Fury (1953), one of Williams's novels.. Williams's work is identified with the noir fiction subgenre of "hardboiled" crime writing.His 1953 novel Hell Hath No Fury—-published by the defining crime fiction company, Gold Medal Books—-was the first paperback original to merit a review from renowned critic Anthony Boucher of The New York Times.

  9. Rural noir - Wikipedia

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    Rural noir (film), a genre of film and TV series, a sub-genre of film noir Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rural noir .