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- ↑ "Graduate Placement: Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ↑ "Graduate Placement: Department of Scandinavian, UC Berkeley". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ↑ Urquhart, James (29 April 2004). "Firewall, by Henning Mankell trans. Ebba Segerberg". The Independent . London. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
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