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- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes: Alfonso Reyes International Prize
- ↑ "Mexican Writer Fernando del Paso Wins Alfonso Reyes Prize". Latin American Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
- ↑ Otorgan el Premio Alfonso Reyes 2019 a Herbert S. Klein El Universal 13 Feb 2020 (in Spanish)