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Nobel Prize winners in Literature by year

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Year
Winner(s)
Nationality
Works
show Imre Kertesz   Hungarian   Fateless, Fiasco, Kaddish for a Child Not Born  
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2001   show British   The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Enigma of Arrival  
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2000   show Chinese   A Pigeon Called Red Beak, Signal Alarm, Bus Stop  
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show Gunter Grass   German   The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Show Your Tongue  
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1998   show Portuguese   Objecto Quase, Levantado do Chao, A Jangada de Pedra  
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1997   show Italian   Il Dito Dell'Occhio, The Virtuous Burglars, I Sani de Legare  
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1996   Wislawa Szymborska   Polish   show
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1995   Seamus Heaney   show Seeing Things, Death of a Naturalist, Wintering Out  
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1994   show Japanese   Shisha no ogori, Man'en gannen no futtoboru, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness  
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1993   Toni Morrison   American   show
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1992   Derek Walcott   show Epitaph for the Young, Xll Cantos, In a Green Night, Poems 1948–60, The Fortunate Traveller  
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1991   Nadine Gordimer   South African   show
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show Octavio Paz   Mexican   Sun Stone, Obsidian Butterfly, The Monkey Crammarian  
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1989   show Spanish   La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), Pabellón de reposo (1943), Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes (1944), La colmena (1951), Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo (1952), La catira (1955), Tobogán de hambrientos (1962), San Camilo I936 (1969)  
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show Naguib Mahfouz   Egyptian   The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Autumn Quail (1962), Small Talk on the Nile (1966)  
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show Joseph Brodsky   American   To Urania, Watermark, A Part of Speech  
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1986   show Nigerian   Requiem for a Futurologist (1985), A Play of Giants (1984), The Strong (1966), The Interpreters (1965)  
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1985   show French   The Cheat, The Tightrope, The Invitation  
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1984   show Czech   Various collections and newspapers  
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1983   show British   Lord of the Flies, Close Quarters, Rites of Passage  
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1982   Gabriel García Márquez   Colombian   show
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1981   Elias Canetti   show Hochzeit, Der andere Prozess. Kafkas Briefe an Felice [Kafka's Other Trial, tr. 1974], Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend. [The Tongue Set Free, tr. 1979].  
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show Czeslaw Milosz   Polish   Volumes of poetry  
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1979   show Greek   "Diary of an Invisible April", "The Monogram", "The Little Mariner"  
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1978   Isaac Bashevis Singer   show The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), Satan in Goray, The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)  
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1977   Vicente Aleixandre   Spanish   show
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1976   show American   Dangling Man, Henderson The Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)  
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1975   Eugenio Montale   Italian   show
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show Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson   Swedish   De fyra främlingarna, Bobinack, Vinterresa i Norrbotten /// Vägen till Klockrike, Aniara  
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1973   Patrick White   Australian   show
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1972   Heinrich Böll   show Der Zug war pünktlich  
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1971   Pablo Neruda   Chilean   show
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show Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn   Russian   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward, Right Hand  
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1969   Samuel Beckett   Irish   show
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1968   Yasunari Kawabata   show Izu dancer, Snow Country, The Old Capital  
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1967   Miguel Angel Asturias   Guatemalan   show
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show Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Nelly Sachs   Israeli / Swedish   Hakhnasat Kalah (The Bridal Canopy), Oreach Nata Lalun (A Guest for the Night), Temol Shilshom (Only Yesterday) /// In den Wohnungen des Todes (In the Houses of Death), Sternverdunkelung (Eclipse of Stars), 1949, Und niemand weiss weiter (And No One Know  
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show Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov   Russian   Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)  
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show Jean-Paul Sartre (refused the prize)   French   La Nausée (Nausea), Le Mur (Intimacy), L'Etre et le néant (Being and Nothingness), Les Mouches (The Flies), Huis Clos (No Exit)  
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1963   Giorgos Seferis   Greek   show
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show John Steinbeck   American   Of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath  
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1961   Ivo Andric   Yugoslavian   show
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1960   show French   Anabase (Anabasis), Exil (Exile), Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady)  
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1959   show Italian   Acque e terre (Waters and Lands), Òboe sommerso (Sunken Oboe), Giorno dopogiorno (Day after Day)  
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1958   Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (could not accept prize)   Russian   show
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1957   Albert Camus   show Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), L'Étranger (The Stranger), La Peste (The Plague), La Chute (The Fall)  
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1956   show Spanish   Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), Platero y yo (Platero and I), Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newly-Wed Poet)  
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1955   show Icelandic   Undir Helgahnúk (Under the Holy Mountain), Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmir (The Great Weaver from Kashmir), Sjalfstaettfolk (Independent People), Ljós heimsins (The Light of the World)  
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show Ernest Miller Hemingway   American   The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea  
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1953   Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill   show The World Crisis (1923-29), a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58), The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945)  
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1952   François Mauriac   show Le Baiser aux lepreux (1922) [A Kiss for the Leper], Le Cahier noir [The Black Notebook], Le Desert de l'amour (1925) [The Desert of Love]  
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show Pär Fabian Lagerkvist   Swedish   Ångest (1916) [Anguish], Hjärtats sånger (1926) [Songs from the Heart], Bödeln (1933) [The Hangman], Mannen utan själ (1936) [The Man without a Soul]  
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show Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell   British   The Principles of Mathematics (1903), History of Western Philosophy (1946), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)  
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1949   show American   The Sound and the Fury (1929), Requiem For A Nun (1951), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), Intruder In the Dust (1948), The Reivers  
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1948   Thomas Stearns Eliot   British   show
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1947   André Paul Guillaume Gide   French   show
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show Hermann Hesse   Swiss   Glasperlenspiel (1943) [Magister Ludi], Knulp (1915), Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927) [Steppenwolf], Narziss und Goldmund. (1930), Die Morgenlandfahrt (1932) [The Journey to the East]  
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1945   show Chilean   Sonetos de la muerte, Desolación [Despair], Ternura [Tenderness]  
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1944   Johannes Vilhelm Jensen   show Himmerlandshistorier (1898-1910) [Himmerland Stories], Den lange rejse (1908-22) [The Long Journey], Myter, 1907-45 [Myths])  
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1943   None   --   show
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show None   --   --  
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1941   show --   --  
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1940   show --   --  
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1939   show Finnish   The Maid Silja, Elämä ja aurinko (1916) [Life and Sun]; Ihmislapsia elämän saatossa (1917) [Children of Man in Life's Procession]; Hurskas kurjuus (1919) [Meek Heritage]; Rakas isänmaani (1919) [Beloved Fatherland]; Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) [Hiltu and Ragna  
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show Pearl Buck   American   East Wind, West Wind, The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935)  
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1937   Roger Martin du Gard   French   show
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show Eugene O'Neill   American   Bound East for Cardiff, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Bound East for Cardiff (1914), Before Breakfast (1916), The Long Voyage Home (1917), In the Zone (1917), The Moon of the Carabbees (1917), Ile (1917), The Rope (1918), Beyond th  
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1935   None   --   show
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1934   show Italian   Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904) [The Late Mattia Pascal], I vecchi e i giovani (1913) [The Old and the Young], Si gira (1916) | [Shoot!]  
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1933   show Russian   Derévnya [The Village], as Sukhodól (1911-12) and Mítina lyubóv (1924-25) [Mitya's Love], the short story Gospodín iz San Francisco (19I6) [The Gentleman from San Francisco], end the autobiographical novel in two volumes, Zhizn Arsénieva (Part I, Istóki d  
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1932   show British   The Island Pharisees (1904), The Forsyte Saga, The Silver Box (1906)  
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show Erik Axel Karlfeldt   Swedish   Vildmarks-och kärleksvisor [Songs of the Wilderness and of Love], Fridolins visor (1898) [Fridolin's Song], Fridolins lustgård (1901)[Fridolin's Pleasure Garden], Flora och Pomona (1906) [Flora and Pomona], Flora och Bellona (1918) [Flora and Bellona], an  
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1930   show American   The Trail of the Hawk, Arrowsmith, Main Street, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)  
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1929   Thomas Mann   German   show
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show Sigrid Undset   Norwegian   Kransen (The Garland), Husfrue (The Mistress of Husaby), Korset (The Cross); and Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (1925 ) [The Master of Hestviken] and its sequel Olav Audunssen og hans børn (1927) [Olav Audunssøn and his Children]  
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1927   Henri Bergson   French   show
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1926   Grazia Deledda   Italian   show
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1925   George Bernard Shaw   show appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Arms and the Man, Man and Superman (1903), Saint Joan (1923), Major Barbara  
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1924   Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont   Polish   show
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1923   William Butler Yeats   Irish   show
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1922   show Spanish   Cartas de mujeres (1892-93) [Women's Letters], were El nido ajeno (1894) [Another's Nest] and Gente conocida (1896) [High Society]  
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1921   Anatole France   French   show
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1920   Knut Pedersen Hamsun   show Sult (1890) [Hunger], Pan (1894), masterpiece Markens Grøde (1917) [Growth of the Soil]  
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1919   show Swiss   Olympian Spring, Prometheus und Epimetheus, Schmetterlinge (1889) [Butterflies]; Friedli der Kolderi (1891); Gustav (1892) ; Litterarische Gleichnisse (1892) [Literary Parables]; Balladen (1896); Der Gotthard (897); Conrad der Leutnant (1898); Lachende Wa  
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1918   None   show --  
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1917   show Danish   Scipio Africanus, En idealist (1878) [An Idealist], Saint Just (1885) /// Fra hytterne (1887) [From the Cottages], Det forjaettede land (1891-95) [The Promised Land], Lykke-Per (1898-1904) [Lucky Peter], and De dødes rige (1912-16) [The Kingdom of the Dea  
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1916   show Swiss   Ett folk (1902) [One People], Karolinerna (1897-98) [The Charles Men], Folkunga Trädet (1905-07) [The Tree of the Folkungs], Folke Filbyter and Bjälboarvet [The BjäIbo Inheritance]  
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show Romain Rolland   France   Les Tragédies de la foi (1909) [Tragedies of Faith], Théâtre de la révolution (1909), : L'Aube, Le Matin, L'Adolescent, La Révolte, La Foire sur la place, Antoinette, Dans la maison, Les Amies, Le Buisson ardent, and La Nouvelle Journée [Dawn, Morning, Yo  
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1914   show --   --  
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1913   Rabindranath Tagore   Indian   show
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1912   Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   show Vor Sonnenaufgang, Die Weber (1892) [The Weavers], the comedy Der Biberpelz (1893) [The Beaver Coat], the historical drama Florian Geyer (1896), Fuhrmann Henschel (1898) [Drayman Henschel], Rose Bernd (1903), and Die Ratten (1911) [The Rats]  
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1911   show Belgian   Serres chaudes [Ardent Talons], L'Intruse (1890) [The Intruder], Les Aveugles (1890) [The Blind], and the love dramas Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), Alladine et Palomides (1894), and Aglavaine et Sélysette (1896)  
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1910   Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse   show Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse (Berlin, 1900) [Memories of my Youth and Confessions], Gesammelte Werke (1871-191O) [Collected Works], 36 vols.; Dramatische Dichtungen (1864-1905) [Dramatic Works], 36 vols.; Romane, Novellen, lyrische und epische Gedi  
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show Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf   Swiss   Gösta Berlings Saga, Antikris mirakler (1897) [The Miracles of Antichrist], published Jerusalem (1901-1902) [The Holy City]  
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1908   Rudolf Christoph Eucken   German   show
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show Rudyard Kipling   British   Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day's Work (1898), Stalky and Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Trafficks and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook's Hill (  
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1906   Giosuè Carducci   Italian   show
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show Henryk Sienkiewicz   Polish   Latarnik (1882) [The Lighthouse Keeper], Ogniem i mieczem [With Fire and Sword], Potop [The Deluge] and Pan Wolodyjowski [Pan Michael], Quo Vadis?  
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1904   show French /// Spanish   Miréio (1859), Calendau (1867), include Lis Isclo d'or (1876) [Islands of Gold], a collection of poems; «Nerto» (1884), a narrative poem based on a chronicle of the Avignon Popes; La Rèino Jano (1890); and Lou pouémo dóu rose (1897) [The Song of the Rhone  
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show Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson   Norwegian   Mellem slagene (Between the Battles), En hanske (1883) "A Gauntlet", Det flager i byen og på havnen(1884) "The Heritage of the Kurts" and På Guds veie (1889) "In God's Way"  
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1902   Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen   German   show
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1901   Sully Prudhomme   show , Stances et Poèmes (1865) [Stanzas and Poems], Croquis Italiens (1866-68) [Italian Notebook]; Solitudes (1869); Impressions de la guerre (1870) [Impressions of War]; Les Destins (1872) [Destinies]; La Révolte des fleurs (1872) [Revolt of the Flowers ]; L  
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