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- ↑ List of Hemingway/PEN winners [ permanent dead link ], accessed 5 Aug 2010.
- ↑ "Akhil Sharma's First Time". YouTube. 15 August 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- ↑ "An Obedient Father". McNally Editions. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022.
- ↑ Castellano, Daniele (12 January 2022). "His First Novel Was a Critical Hit. Two Decades Later, He Rewrote It". The New York Times Magazine.
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