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This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.
International awards
All nationalities and multiple languages eligible
- Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901
- Hugo Award – since 1953
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970
- International Botev Prize – since 1972
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978
- Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
- America Award – since 1994
- Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997
- Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001
- Ovid Prize – since 2002
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006
- European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009
- Jan Michalski Prize – since 2009
- The Paris Literary Prize – since 2010
- KONS International Literary Award – since 2011
- Grand Prix of Literary Associations (English, French, and Spanish) – since 2013
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award – since 2013
- Europese Literatuurprijs (European Literature Award) – since 2011
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – since 2003
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Awards by language
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
English
- International Dublin Literary Award
- Goldsmiths Prize
- Next Generation Indie Book Awards
- Booker Prize
- The Warwick Prize for Writing
- International Rubery Book Award
- Montreal International Poetry Prize
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes
- Caine Prize
- Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
- International Booker Prize
- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
- ARA Historical Novel Prize
German
- Georg Büchner Prize – for the overall literary oeuvre
- Sigmund Freud Prize – for scientific prose
- German Book Prize – for the best German language novel of the year
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- Aspekte-Literaturpreis (Aspekte Literature Prize) – for the best debut novel written in German
- Kleist Prize – first awarded in 1912
- Merano Poetry Prize – established in 1993 for poetry
- International Literature Award - established in 2009 for international prose translated into German
Gujarati
Hebrew
- Bialik Prize
- Sapir Prize
- Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
Italian
- Crotone Prize
- Strega Prize
- Premio Campiello
- Premio Bancarella
- Bagutta Prize
- Urania award (Science Fiction)
Kannada
Malayalam
Marathi
Meitei (Manipuri)
Odia
Polish
Portuguese
- Camões Prize
- Prémio Leya
- Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature (from 2007 onwards)
- São Paulo Prize for Literature
Spanish
Tamil
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Awards by region
African
- Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation
- Brunel University African Poetry Prize
- Caine Prize
- Etisalat Prize for Literature
- Golden Baobab Prize
- Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
- Lotus Prize for Literature (discontinued)
- Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (discontinued)
- Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry
- Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Asian
- Man Asian Literary Prize
- DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
- SAARC Literary Award
- Kiriyama Prize – for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia; 1996–2008
- Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Literature Award
Caribbean literature
Commonwealth
- Booker Prize – winners and shortlisted authors
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize (discontinued)
- Encore Award – since 1990
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
European Union
Nordic
Awards by country
American literature
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
- Ambassador Book Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals in Belles Lettres, Criticism and Essays
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry
- American Book Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
- Arab American Book Award
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Asian American Literary Awards
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
- Bancroft Prize
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
- The Best American Poetry
- Best Translated Book Award
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- Bram Stoker Award
- Carter G. Woodson Book Award
- Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
- Christopher Hewitt Award
- Colorado Book Award
- Dana Award
- Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
- Dos Passos Prize
- Drue Heinz Literature Prize
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award
- Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
- Fabri Literary Prize
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Frost Medal
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Gotham Book Prize
- Gregory Kolovakos Award
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
- Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
- Hopwood Award
- Hugo Award
- James Duval Phelan Award
- James Jones First Novel Award
- James Laughlin Award
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- Jackson Poetry Prize
- The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
- Joseph Henry Jackson Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- Minnesota Book Award
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Outdoor Book Award
- National Poetry Series
- National Translation Award
- Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
- Nebula Award for Science Fiction
- Newbery Medal
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- Oregon Book Award
- Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
- PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
- PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work)
- PEN Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins; for writers of color)
- PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
- Poets' Prize
- Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
- Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Pushcart Prize
- Quill Awards
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- RUSA awards
- Robert Olen Butler Prize
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Scott Moncrieff Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
- Short Story Award
- Sophie Brody Award
- Spur Award
- St. Francis College Literary Prize
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
- Stonewall Book Award
- The Story Prize
- Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
- Whiting Awards
- Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Australian literature
- ACT Book of the Year
- Aurealis Award – awarded annually for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award – for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35
- Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards
- Miles Franklin Award – for the best Australian published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- Patrick White Award
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
- South Australian Literary Awards
- Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
Austrian literature
Bangladesh literature
Botswana literature
Brazilian literature
British literature
- Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
- Baillie Gifford Prize
- Betty Trask Prize and Awards
- Booker Prize
- British Book Awards – the "Nibbies"
- Chancellor's Gold Medal
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- Dundee International Book Prize
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Forward Prizes for Poetry
- Hawthornden Prize
- International Rubery Book Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Meyer-Whitworth Award
- Newdigate Prize
- Orwell Prize
- PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
- SI Leeds Literary Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Waverton Good Read Award
- Women's Prize for Fiction
- Costa Book Awards (discontinued in 2021)
- Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author first published in the UK during the two preceding years.
- Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation – recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK.
Bulgarian literature
Canadian literature
- Arthur Ellis Award
- Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
- Booker Prize
- Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature
- Canada Reads
- Canadian Jewish Book Awards
- Carol Bolt Award
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize
- Doug Wright Award
- Edna Staebler Award
- Geoffrey Bilson Award
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- Governor General's Award
- Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition
- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Innis-Gérin Medal
- John Glassco Translation Prize
- Journey Prize
- Kobzar Literary Award
- Lane Anderson Award
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award
- McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
- Norma Fleck Award
- Pat Lowther Award
- Percy Janes First Novel Award
- Prix Anne-Hébert
- Prix Athanase-David
- Prix du Cercle du livre de France
- Prix Ringuet
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- ReLit Awards
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Ryerson Fiction Award (discontinued)
- Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
- Shaughnessy Cohen Award
- Stephen Leacock Award
- Sunburst Award
- TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
- Thomas Head Raddall Award
- Trillium Award
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Winterset Award
- Wright Awards
- Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award
- Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
Chilean literature
Chinese literature
Costa Rican literature
Croatian language
Czech literature
Dutch literature
Ecuadorian literature
Estonian literature
Finnish literature
- Finlandia Prize for literature
- Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
- Runeberg Prize for literature
- Thanks for the Book Award for literature
French literature
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
- Prix Alain-Fournier
- Prix Décembre
- Prix des Deux-Magots
- Prix Femina
- Prix Fénéon
- Prix de Flore
- Prix du roman Fnac
- Prix Goncourt
- Prix Interallié
- Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
- Prix Médicis
- Prix Mystère de la critique
- Prix de la Page 112
- Prix du Quai des Orfèvres
- Prix Renaudot
- Candide Preis (the only German-French Literary award)
Georgian literature
German literature
- Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
- Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
- Candide Preis – German-French literary award in memory of Voltaire's novella Candide – since 1995
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal – annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
- Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin
- German Book Prize – awarded annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair for the best German language novel of the year
- Georg Büchner Prize – awarded annually by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in memory of Georg Büchner
- Goethe Prize – awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; since 1927
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize
- Heinrich Heine Prize
- Hermann-Hesse-Preis
- Hans Fallada Prize – biennial literary prize in memory of Hans Fallada
- Heinrich Mann Prize
- Hermann Kesten Medal
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
- Kassel Literary Prize
- Kleist Prize
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis – annual science fiction award in memory of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize
- Merck Kakehashi Literature Prize
- Nelly Sachs Prize
- Roswitha Prize
- Schiller Memorial Prize
- Toucan Prize
Hungarian literature
- Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – for poets and translators; since 1997
- Baumgarten Prize
- Kossuth Prize
Icelandic literature
Indian literature
Indonesian literature
Iranian literature
Irish literature
Israeli literature
Italian literature
Japanese literature
- Akutagawa Prize
- Bungei Prize
- Dazai Osamu Prize
- Edogawa Rampo Prize
- Honkaku Mystery Award
- Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
- Kikuchi Kan Prize (Kan Kikuchi Shō)
- Mishima Yukio Prize
- Mystery Writers of Japan Award
- Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
- Noma Prize for Literature
- Ōe Kenzaburō Prize
- Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001
- Tanizaki Prize
- Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
- Yomiuri Prize for Literature
Luxembourgian literature
Malaysian literature
Mexican literature
Nepalese Literature
New Zealand literature
- Esther Glen Award – for children's literature
- Joy Cowley Award – for children's literature
- Sir Julius Vogel Award – for science fiction and fantasy
- New Zealand Post Book Awards
- Ngaio Marsh Award
- Margaret Mahy Award
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
Nigerian literature
Norwegian literature
Philippine literature
Polish literature
Portuguese literature
Russian literature
Serbian literature
Singaporean literature
Slovene literature
South African literature
- Alan Paton Award
- Alba Bouwer Prize
- Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
- ATKV Prose Prize
- Barry Ronge Fiction Prize
- C.P. Hoogenhout Award
- Central News Agency Literary Award
- David Higham Prize for Fiction
- Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
- Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
- Eugène Marais Prize
- Hertzog Prize
- Ingrid Jonker Prize
- M-Net Literary Awards
- Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
- Media24 Books Literary Awards
- Olive Schreiner Prize
- Percy FitzPatrick Award
- Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
- South African Literary Awards
- Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards
- The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
- Thomas Pringle Award
- University of Johannesburg Prize
- W.A Hofmeyr Prize
South Korean literature
Spanish literature
Sri Lankan literature
Swedish literature
Swiss literature
Thai literature
Turkish literature
Ukrainian literature
- Shevchenko National Prize – since 1961
Venezuelan literature
Zimbabwean literature
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Awards by genres
Children's literature
- Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) – since 1922
- Carnegie Medal (UK) – since 1936
- Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration – since 1938
- Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (Australia) – since 1946
- Governor General's Award for English language children's literature (Canada) – since 1949
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1953
- Children's Literature Legacy Award (USA) – since 1954, formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (international) – since 1956
- Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) – since 1956
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany/international) – since 1956
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957
- Nienke van Hichtum-prijs (Netherlands) – since 1964
- Guardian Award (UK) – since 1967
- Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children's and teen literature – since 1968
- Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970
- Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales, UK) – since 1976
- Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (UK) – 1985–2007
- Prix Sorcières (France) – since 1986
- Governor General's Award for French language children's literature (Canada) – since 1987
- KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards (Ireland) – since 1990
- Gelett burgess children's book award (USA) – since 2010
- Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature (USA) – since 1991
- The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland) – since 1995
- Angus Book Award (UK) – since 1996
- Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA) – since 1996
- Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK) – since 1996
- Children's Laureate (UK) – since 1999
- Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA) – since 2000
- Sibert Medal for informational books (USA) – since 2001
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award (USA)
- Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan) – since 2001
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (international) – since 2003
- NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature – since 2003
Food and drink
- Langhe Ceretto Prize (international) – since 1991
History
- Cundill History Prize for historical non-fiction – since 2008
- Duff Cooper Prize — since 1956
- Wolfson History Prize – since 1972
Horror fiction
- Bram Stoker Award – for superior achievement in horror writing, since 1987
- Shirley Jackson Award – for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic, since 2007.
- Lord Ruthven Award – for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature – since 1989
Military fiction and military history
- Colby Award for a first work of fiction or nonfiction – since 1999
- Pritzker Military Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing – since 2007
- W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction – since 1997
Mystery: crime fiction and detective fiction
- Agatha Award
- Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
- Anthony Award
- Arthur Ellis Awards by the Crime Writers of Canada
- Ayukawa Tetsuya Award
- Barry Award
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
- Crime Writers' Association awards:
- Davitt Award
- Glass Key award
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
- Hammett Prize
- Honkaku Mystery Award – awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
- Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize
- Left Coast Crime awards
- Macavity Award
- Martin Beck Award
- Mephisto Prize
- Mystery Writers of America awards:
- Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
- Ned Kelly Awards
- Shamus Award
- Staunch Book Prize
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
Romance fiction
Speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy)
- Hugo Award – since 1955
- Nebula Award – since 1965
- Ditmar Award (Australia) – since 1969
- BSFA award – since 1970
- Seiun Award – since 1970
- Locus Award – since 1971
- Mythopoeic Awards – awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis – since 1971
- Prix Tour-Apollo Award – since 1972
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel – since 1973
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction – since 1973
- World Fantasy Award – since 1975
- Paul Harland Prize (Netherlands) – since 1976
- Prometheus Award – best Libertarian SF – since 1979
- Nihon SF Taisho Award – since 1980
- Prix Aurora Award (Canada) – since 1980
- Prix Rosny-Aîné (France) – since 1980
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany) – since 1981
- Philip K. Dick Award – since 1982
- Compton Crook Award – best first-time novel in genre in a year, since 1983
- Janusz A. Zajdel Award (Poland) – since 1984
- Writers of the Future – contest for new authors, since 1985
- Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) – since 1986
- Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987
- Japan Fantasy Novel Award – since 1989
- Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand) – since 1989
- Urania Award (Italy) – since 1989
- SFRA Pioneer Award – best critical essay-length work, since 1990
- Tiptree award – since 1991
- Chandler Award (Australia) – since 1992
- Sidewise Award for Alternate History – since 1995
- Aurealis Award (Australia) – since 1995
- Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service – promotion of SF teaching and study, etc., since 1996
- Endeavour Award (Pacific Northwest) – since 1999
- Nautilus Award (Poland) – since 2003
- WSFA Small Press Award – since 2007
- Tähtifantasia Award (Finland) – since 2007
- Kitschies (UK) – since 2009
- Ignyte Awards – since 2023.
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Baseball
- CASEY Award (US)
- Seymour Medal (US)
Biography
- Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.
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Miscellaneous
Awards for literary translation
- Gregory Kolovakos Award – PEN America : U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic whose work ... extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience
- PEN Translation Prize – awarded annually for a translation from any language into English.
- Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize – awarded annually for a book-length translation from any language into English.
- Rossica Translation Prize – awarded biennially by Academia Rossica[1] to a translation from Russian into English.
- National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award
- National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association[2]
- Popescu Prize – awarded biennially for a translation of poetry from a European language into English. Awarded by the Poetry Society.
- Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – annually awarded to a translation of a poem from any language into English.
- Scott Moncrieff Prize – awarded annually for French to English translation.
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation – awarded annually for Arabic to English literary translation.
- Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation – awarded for a translation of prose or poetry into English from any other of the South African official languages.
- Rossica Young Translators Prize – open to submissions from translators aged under 25, awarded annually for the translation of a passage of contemporary fiction from Russian into English.[3]
- Harvill Secker Young Translators Prize – open to submissions from translators aged between 18 and 34, awarded annually, focusing on a different language every year.[4]
- International Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize – since 1996
- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
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Awards for literary criticism
- Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing – awarded annually for literary criticism as one of the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
- Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism – awarded annually for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust.
- Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism – awarded to Malayalam language literary criticism, as a category of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award[5][6]
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References
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