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- 1 2 3 "Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize | A biennial literary prize" . Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ↑ "Ewart-Biggs prize is won by 'Lost Lives'". The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 2021-12-05.
- ↑ The 2015 – 2017 Prize