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- ↑ "PEN American Center - 2005 PEN Literary Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-03-16. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
- ↑ "Past ASF Translation Prize Winners - ASF". The American-Scandinavian Foundation. 23 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
