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  Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

  Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of the novels PATSY (June 4, 2019) and HERE COMES THE SUN (Liveright, 2016), which won the Lambda Literary Award, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
  
  HERE COMES THE SUN was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and received “Best Book of the Year” nods from NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Entertainment Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, BuzzFeed, Vice, and Kirkus Reviews, among others. It was named one of the best books to read in summer 2016 by the New York Times, NPR, BBC, O, The Oprah Magazine, E

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  Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.

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  Gerald Durrell

  Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. His family settled on Corfu when Gerald was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family And Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts, And Relatives and The Garden Of The Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.
  
  On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts In My Belfry. A few years later, Gerald began organising his own animal-collec

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  Gail Tsukiyama

  Born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in San Francisco, Gail Tsukiyama now lives in El Cerrito, California. Her novels include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai's Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), and The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007).

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  Aminatta Forna

  Aminatta’s books have been translated into eighteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Freeman’s, Granta, The Guardian, LitHub, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Observer and Vogue. She has written stories for BBC radio and written and presented television documentaries including “The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu” (BBC Television, 2009) and “Girl Rising” (CNN, 2013).
  
  Aminatta is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. She has acted as judge for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Bailey Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the Caine Prize and the International Man Booker Prize.
  
  In 2003 Aminatta established the Rogbonko Project to build a school in a village in Sierra

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  Laila Lalami

  Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

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  Osamu Dazai

  Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
  With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.

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  Ágota Kristóf

  Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
  
  Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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  Ahmet Ümit

  Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara University and wrote his very first story. An active member of the Turkish Communist Party from 1974 until 1989 Ümit took part in the underground movement for democracy while Turkey was under the rule of a
  military dictatorship between 1980-1990. In 1985-86 he illegally attended the Academy for Social Sciences in Moscow. Ümit worked in the advertising sector from 1989-1998 and is currently employed as cultural advisor at the Goethe Foundation in Istanbul. He has one daughter Gül. Since 1989 Ümit has published one volume of poetry three volumes o

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Amit Majmudar

  Amit Majmudar is the author of The Abundance, Partitions, chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best debut novels of 2011 and by Booklist as one of the year’s ten best works of historical fiction. His poetry has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Best American Poetry 2011. A radiologist, he lives in Columbus, Ohio.
  

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  Sándor Márai

  Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
  He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
  He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienn

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  Hikmet Hükümenoğlu

  1971 yılında İstanbul'da doğdu. Robert Kolej'den, sonra Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fizik ve ardından Koç Üniversitesi MBA bölümlerinden mezun oldu. Dokuz yıl boyunca çeşitli yatırım bankaları ve aracı kurumlarda analist ve üst düzey yönetici olarak çalıştı. 2004 yılında finans sektörünü terk ettiğinden beri zamanının büyük bir kısmını yazarak ve müzik yaparak geçiriyor.

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  Ellen Banda-Aaku

  Ellen Banda-Aaku was born in Woking Surrey in 1965. The middle child of three she grew up in Zambia and has lived and worked in Ghana, South Africa, the UK and Zambia.
  
  In 2004 she won the Macmillan Writers’ Prize for Africa for Wandi’s Little Voice, a book for children. In 2007, her short story, Sozi’s Box, was the overall winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her novel "Patchwork," published 2011, won the Penguin Prize for African Writing.
  
  She has a BA in Public Administration from the University of Zambia, an MA in Financial Management with Social Policy from Middlesex University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She’s currently is based in the UK where she lives with her two children Saada

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  Tarık Dursun K.

  Tarık Dursun K., 1931 yılında İzmir’de doğdu, ortaokulu dışarıdan bitirdi. Senaryo, çocuk kitabı, öykü, roman, şiir, deneme gibi farklı türlerdeki ürünleriyle 1950’lerin en verimli kalemlerinden sayılan yazarın İnsan Kurdu ve Kurşun Ata Ata Biter adlı romanları sinemaya aktarıldı. “Yabanın Adamları” ile 1967 Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı’nı; Kurşun Ata Ata Biter ile 1984 Orhan Kemal Roman Armağanı’nı; “Ona Sevdiğini Söyle” ile 1985 Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı’nı; Ağaçlar Gibi Ayakta ile 1990 Yunus Nadi Roman Armağanı’nı, Hepsi Hikâye ile de 2006 Sedat Simavi Edebiyat Ödülü’nü kazandı. 2014’te Altın Portakal Yaşam Boyu Onur Ödülü’ne değer görüldü. Hoşça Kal Küçük (1978), Otobüsüm Kalkıyor (1990) ve Benim Dedem Bir Tane (1998) adlı çocuk romanları

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  Defne Suman

  Defne Suman was born in Istanbul and grew up on Prinkipo Island. She gained a Masters in sociology from the Bosphorus University and then worked as a teacher in Thailand and Laos, where she studied Far Eastern philosophy and mystic disciplines. She later continued her studies in Oregon, USA and now lives in Athens with her husband. The Silence of Scheherazade was first published in Turkey and Greece in 2016 and is her English language debut.

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  Sinem Sal

  19 Eylül 1987'de, ki yılıyla ilgili çeşitli söylentiler var; ailede iç savaşın olduğu yıllarmış doğumu fark edilmemiş, İstanbul'da hayata başladı.
  
  2010'da Lakuna, 2012'de Anekta ve 2014'te Yine de Âmin kitaplarını Dünya'ya postaladı. Afili Filintalar ve Ot Dergi'de yazıyor.
  
  Şiirlerinde ve hikâyelerinde olmayacak işlerin, ütopyanın, ironinin, kalbe varmanın türlü yollarıyla muhatap. Kadıköy'ün sokak çaycılarında kâinata dair büyük bir ipucu bulduğu gün şükredecek.

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  Melisa Kesmez

  MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.

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  Édouard Louis

  Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
  
  From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
  
  The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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  J.J. Bola

  A Kinshasa born, London raised writer, poet, educator and workshop facilitator. London and UK based, but also international; Paris, Brussels, Boston etc, most recently San Francisco and Oakland, where he won the Oakland Poetry Slam. Performs regularly at shows and festivals such as Tongue Fu, Vocals & Verses, Chill Pill, The Round House, Ventnor Fringe, etc as well as Universities; SOAS, UCL, Oxford, Lincoln, University of Birmingham, Standford University and Merrit College in the Bay and other public institutions. Also includes various Radio and Television appearances.
  
  JJ Bola has successfully published two books of poetry Elevate and Daughter of the Sun (ebook). His third, and latest, is his most comprehensive poetry collection WORD, which

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  Afşin Kum

  1972 İzmir doğumlu. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde bilgisayar mühendisliği, Bilgi Üniversitesi'nde sinema-televizyon öğrenimi gördü. Çeşitli kurumlarda yazılımcı ve yönetici olarak çalıştı. Doksanlı yıllardan itibaren müzik ve senaryo çalışmalarında bulundu. Afili Filintalar sitesinde ve Ot dergisinde deneme ve öyküleri yayınlandı. 2016 yılı Kasım ayında ilk romanı Sıcak Kafa, 2020 Şubat ayında da ikinci romanı Kübra okurla buluştu.

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  Yuta Takahashi

  Yuta Takahashi is the award-winning author of the eight-book series Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen as well as several other popular series spanning historical and contemporary fiction. He was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and now lives in Tokyo.

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  Mirinae Lee

  Mirinae Lee was born and grew up in Seoul. Her debut novel, '8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster,' has been longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. '8 Lives' is inspired by Lee's great-aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea. Its translations continue to meet readers worldwide, including in the US, the UK, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Romania, South Korea, Spain, and Switzerland. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children.

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  Hwang Bo-Reum

  Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel, which has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before its release as a paperback, the novel was initially published as an e-book after winning an open contest co-organised by Korean content-publishing platform ‘Brunch’.
  
  대학에서 컴퓨터공학을 전공하고 LG전자에서 소프트웨어 개발자로 일했다. 몇 번의 입사와 퇴사를 반복하면서도 매일 읽고 쓰는 사람으로서의 정체성은 잃지 않고 있다. 지은 책으로 『매일 읽겠습니다』, 『난생처음 킥복싱』, 『이 정도 거리가 딱 좋다』가 있다.
  
  
  

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  Reem Gaafar

  Reem Gaafar is a Sudanese public health physician, researcher, writer and mother of three boys. She is published in both fiction and non-fiction circles, contributing to issues on public health and policy, society, racism and women’s rights. Her work has appeared in African Arguments, 500 Words Magazine, Teakisi Magazine, African Feminism, Andariya Magazine, International Health Policies and Health Systems Global.
  Her short story Light of the Desert was published in the anthology I Know Two Sudans (Gipping Press, UK). Her second short short Finding Descartes was published in the anthology Relations: African and Diaspora Voices (HarperVia). Her debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt (Saqi Books, Invisible Books) won The Island Prize in 2023, was li

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  Aslı Aktümen

  Uzm.Dr. Aslı Aktümen, Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, ardından Uludağ Üniversitesi Psikiyatri ABD’dan Psikiyatri uzmanı ünvanı alarak meslek hayatına başlamıştır. Bu süreçler ile paralel olarak Odağ Vakfı’ndan Psikanalitik Yönelimli Psikoterapist eğitimini tamamlamıştır. Aynı zamanda Sanatla Terapi ve Yaratıcılık eğitimi, İstanbul Psike Vakfı’ndan Bireysel Psikanaliz, Harvard Tıp Fakültesi Frank M. Dattilio’ dan Aile ve Çift Terapisi eğitimi almıştır. 2011 yılından itibaren çeşitli yurt içi ve yurt dışı psikiyatri kongrelerinde, sanat ve psikiyatri birlikteliği ile ilgili sunumlar ve toplantılar düzenlemektedir.
  
  Film yorumları, biyografi çalışmaları, grup terapisi ve bağımlılık terapisi alanlarında çalışmalar

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  J.J. Bola

  A Kinshasa born, London raised writer, poet, educator and workshop facilitator. London and UK based, but also international; Paris, Brussels, Boston etc, most recently San Francisco and Oakland, where he won the Oakland Poetry Slam. Performs regularly at shows and festivals such as Tongue Fu, Vocals & Verses, Chill Pill, The Round House, Ventnor Fringe, etc as well as Universities; SOAS, UCL, Oxford, Lincoln, University of Birmingham, Standford University and Merrit College in the Bay and other public institutions. Also includes various Radio and Television appearances.
  
  JJ Bola has successfully published two books of poetry Elevate and Daughter of the Sun (ebook). His third, and latest, is his most comprehensive poetry collection WORD, which

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  Ellen Banda-Aaku

  Ellen Banda-Aaku was born in Woking Surrey in 1965. The middle child of three she grew up in Zambia and has lived and worked in Ghana, South Africa, the UK and Zambia.
  
  In 2004 she won the Macmillan Writers’ Prize for Africa for Wandi’s Little Voice, a book for children. In 2007, her short story, Sozi’s Box, was the overall winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her novel "Patchwork," published 2011, won the Penguin Prize for African Writing.
  
  She has a BA in Public Administration from the University of Zambia, an MA in Financial Management with Social Policy from Middlesex University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She’s currently is based in the UK where she lives with her two children Saada

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  Mathangi Subramanian

  Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D., is a writer, educator, and activist. She previously served as Senior Policy Adviser to former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an Assistant Vice President at Sesame Workshop, and a public school teacher in Texas and New York. She has received numerous honors, including a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship and a Jacob Javits Fellowship.

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  Petros Markaris

  Petros Markaris (Greek: Πέτρος Μάρκαρης) was born in Istanbul to an Armenian father and a Greek mother. He is one of the most successful living Greek authors. After studying economics, Markaris went on to work as a screenplay writer. He has lived in Germany and Austria for several years and translated Goethe and Brecht into Greek. International fame came through his series of crime novels featuring the eccentric Athenian detective Kostas Haritos, of which there are now five. Markaris lives in Athens and also co-writes film scripts with Theo Angelopoulos.

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  İlhan Berk

  İlhan Berk was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; "The second new generation") and was very influential among Turkish literary circles.
  Berk was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1918 and received a teacher's training in Balıkesir. He graduated from the French Language Department of Gazi University in Ankara. Between 1945-1955, Berk served as a teacher. He later began to work for the publishing office of Ziraat Bank as a translator (1956–1969). He became specialized in translation of poetry notably by translating into Turkish works by Arthur Rimbaud and Ezra Pound. In his later years, Berk resided in Bodrum where he died on 28 August 2008.
  Berk's poetry evo

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  Refik Halid Karay

  Mudurnu'dan İstanbul'a göçen Karakayış ailesinden Maliye Başveznedarı Mehmed Halit Bey'in oğlu olarak 15 Mart 1888’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Galatasaray Sultanisi'nde ve Hukuk Mektebi'nde okudu. Maliye Nezaretinde memur olarak çalıştı. II. Meşrutiyet'in ilanından sonra gazetecilik ile uğraşmaya başladı; Tercüman-ı Hakikat gazetesinde mütercimlik ve muhabirlik yaptı. Yazıları yüzünden ilk önce Sinop'a daha sonra Çorum, Ankara ve Bilecik'e sürgün olarak gönderildi. İstanbul'a dönünce bir süre Türkçe öğretmenliği yaptı. PTT (Posta Telefon Telgraf) Genel Müdürlüğü'ne getirildi. Bu sırada Hürriyet ve İtilaf Fırkası'na üye oldu ve İstiklal Savaşı aleyhine yazdığı yazılarından ötürü vatan hainliği suçuyla yüzellilikler listesine girerek Beyrut ve Hale

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  Hulki Aktunç

  Askeri okullardaki orta ve lise yıllarından sonra İstanbul Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ne girdi. Yükseköğrenimi sürdürmedi.
  Yazı yaşamı, dönemin önemli dergilerinden Yeni Ufuklar’da başladı (1968). İlk kitabı Gidenler Dönmeyenler ile Türk Dil Kurumu Öykü Ödülü’nü (1977), Bir Çağ Yangını romanı ile Abdi İpekçi Ödülü’nü (1981), Bir Yer Göstericinin Hayatı ile Yunus Nadi Öykü Ödülü’nü (1990) kazandı. 1976 sonrasında şiire özel bir ağırlık verdi. İnsan Aşklarının Külüdür ile Halil Kocagöz Şiir Ödülü’nü (1994), Istıraplar Ansiklopedisi ile de Cemal Süreya Ödülü’nü aldı (1995). On yılı aşan bir çalışmanın ürünü olan Büyük Argo Sözlüğü (1990) gerek Türkiye’de, gerek yurtdışı Türkoloji çevrelerinde yoğun ilgi gördü. 1998 öyküye dönüş yılı oldu (Güz

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