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Nobel Prize winners in Literature by year

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Year
Winner(s)
Nationality
Works
2002   Imre Kertesz   Hungarian   show
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2001   show British   The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Enigma of Arrival  
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2000   show Chinese   A Pigeon Called Red Beak, Signal Alarm, Bus Stop  
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show Gunter Grass   German   The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Show Your Tongue  
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1998   show Portuguese   Objecto Quase, Levantado do Chao, A Jangada de Pedra  
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1997   Dario Fo   show Il Dito Dell'Occhio, The Virtuous Burglars, I Sani de Legare  
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1996   show Polish   Dlatego zyjemy (1952), Pytania zadawane sobie (1954), Wolanie do Yeti (1957), Sól (1962), Wiersze wybrane (1964), Poezje wybrane (1967), Sto pociech (1967), Poezje (1970)  
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show Seamus Heaney   Irish   Seeing Things, Death of a Naturalist, Wintering Out  
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1994   Kenzaburo Oe   show Shisha no ogori, Man'en gannen no futtoboru, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness  
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1993   Toni Morrison   American   show
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1992   show St. Lucian   Epitaph for the Young, Xll Cantos, In a Green Night, Poems 1948–60, The Fortunate Traveller  
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show Nadine Gordimer   South African   A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A Sport of Nature, My Son's Story  
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1990   Octavio Paz   show Sun Stone, Obsidian Butterfly, The Monkey Crammarian  
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1989   show Spanish   La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), Pabellón de reposo (1943), Nuevas andanzas y desventuras de Lazarillo de Tormes (1944), La colmena (1951), Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo (1952), La catira (1955), Tobogán de hambrientos (1962), San Camilo I936 (1969)  
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show Naguib Mahfouz   Egyptian   The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Autumn Quail (1962), Small Talk on the Nile (1966)  
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show Joseph Brodsky   American   To Urania, Watermark, A Part of Speech  
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1986   Wole Soyinka   show Requiem for a Futurologist (1985), A Play of Giants (1984), The Strong (1966), The Interpreters (1965)  
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1985   show French   The Cheat, The Tightrope, The Invitation  
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1984   Jaroslav Seifert   show Various collections and newspapers  
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1983   William Golding   show Lord of the Flies, Close Quarters, Rites of Passage  
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show Gabriel García Márquez   Colombian   El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Ojos de perro azul, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera  
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1981   Elias Canetti   show Hochzeit, Der andere Prozess. Kafkas Briefe an Felice [Kafka's Other Trial, tr. 1974], Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend. [The Tongue Set Free, tr. 1979].  
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1980   show Polish   Volumes of poetry  
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1979   show Greek   "Diary of an Invisible April", "The Monogram", "The Little Mariner"  
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1978   show American   The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), Satan in Goray, The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)  
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1977   Vicente Aleixandre   Spanish   show
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1976   Saul Bellow   American   show
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show Eugenio Montale   Italian   Omaggio a Svevo, Ossi di seppia, La farfalla di Dinard, Fuori di casa  
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1974   show Swedish   De fyra främlingarna, Bobinack, Vinterresa i Norrbotten /// Vägen till Klockrike, Aniara  
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1973   Patrick White   Australian   show
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1972   Heinrich Böll   show Der Zug war pünktlich  
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1971   show Chilean   Crepusculario, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, Residencia en la tierra  
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1970   show Russian   One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Cancer Ward, Right Hand  
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1969   Samuel Beckett   show Molloy, Malone Dies, Endgame, Waiting for Godot  
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1968   show Japanese   Izu dancer, Snow Country, The Old Capital  
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show Miguel Angel Asturias   Guatemalan   La arquitectura de la vida nueva, Leyendas de Guatemala, El Señor Presidente, Viento fuerte  
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1966   Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Nelly Sachs   show Hakhnasat Kalah (The Bridal Canopy), Oreach Nata Lalun (A Guest for the Night), Temol Shilshom (Only Yesterday) /// In den Wohnungen des Todes (In the Houses of Death), Sternverdunkelung (Eclipse of Stars), 1949, Und niemand weiss weiter (And No One Know  
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1965   Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov   show Donskie rasskazy (Tales from the Don), Tikhi Don (And Quiet Flows the Don), Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned)  
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1964   Jean-Paul Sartre (refused the prize)   French   show
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1963   show Greek   Strophe (Turning Point), E Sterna (The Cistern), Mythistorema  
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show John Steinbeck   American   Of Mice and Men, the Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, the Grapes of Wrath  
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1961   show Yugoslavian   Nemiri (Anxieties), Put Alije Djerzeleza (The Trip of Alija Djerzelez), Pripovetke (Stories), Gospodjica (The Woman from Sarajevo)  
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1960   Saint-John Perse   show Anabase (Anabasis), Exil (Exile), Poème l'Etrangère (Poem to a Foreign Lady)  
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show Salvatore Quasimodo   Italian   Acque e terre (Waters and Lands), Òboe sommerso (Sunken Oboe), Giorno dopogiorno (Day after Day)  
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show Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (could not accept prize)   Russian   Doctor Zhivago, Okhrannaya gramota (Safe Conduct), Zemnye prostory (Wide Spaces of the Earth)  
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1957   Albert Camus   French   show
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show Juan Ramón Jiménez   Spanish   Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), Elejías puras (Pure Elegies), Platero y yo (Platero and I), Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newly-Wed Poet)  
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1955   show Icelandic   Undir Helgahnúk (Under the Holy Mountain), Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmir (The Great Weaver from Kashmir), Sjalfstaettfolk (Independent People), Ljós heimsins (The Light of the World)  
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1954   Ernest Miller Hemingway   American   show
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1953   Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill   show The World Crisis (1923-29), a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols., 1956-58), The Unrelenting Struggle (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945)  
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1952   François Mauriac   show Le Baiser aux lepreux (1922) [A Kiss for the Leper], Le Cahier noir [The Black Notebook], Le Desert de l'amour (1925) [The Desert of Love]  
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1951   show Swedish   Ångest (1916) [Anguish], Hjärtats sånger (1926) [Songs from the Heart], Bödeln (1933) [The Hangman], Mannen utan själ (1936) [The Man without a Soul]  
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1950   show British   The Principles of Mathematics (1903), History of Western Philosophy (1946), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)  
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1949   William Faulkner   American   show
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1948   Thomas Stearns Eliot   British   show
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show André Paul Guillaume Gide   French   Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) [The Notebooks of André Walter], Les Nourritures terrestres (1897) [Fruits of the Earth], Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue (1907) [The Return of the Prodigal], La Porte étroite (1909) [Strait is the Gate], Les Faux Monnayeu  
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1946   Hermann Hesse   show Glasperlenspiel (1943) [Magister Ludi], Knulp (1915), Demian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927) [Steppenwolf], Narziss und Goldmund. (1930), Die Morgenlandfahrt (1932) [The Journey to the East]  
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1945   Gabriela Mistral   show Sonetos de la muerte, Desolación [Despair], Ternura [Tenderness]  
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1944   Johannes Vilhelm Jensen   Danish   show
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1940   None   show --  
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show Frans Eemil Sillanpää   Finnish   The Maid Silja, Elämä ja aurinko (1916) [Life and Sun]; Ihmislapsia elämän saatossa (1917) [Children of Man in Life's Procession]; Hurskas kurjuus (1919) [Meek Heritage]; Rakas isänmaani (1919) [Beloved Fatherland]; Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) [Hiltu and Ragna  
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1938   Pearl Buck   American   show
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1937   Roger Martin du Gard   French   show
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1936   show American   Bound East for Cardiff, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, Bound East for Cardiff (1914), Before Breakfast (1916), The Long Voyage Home (1917), In the Zone (1917), The Moon of the Carabbees (1917), Ile (1917), The Rope (1918), Beyond th  
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1935   None   --   show
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1934   Luigi Pirandello   Italian   show
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1933   Ivan Bunin   show Derévnya [The Village], as Sukhodól (1911-12) and Mítina lyubóv (1924-25) [Mitya's Love], the short story Gospodín iz San Francisco (19I6) [The Gentleman from San Francisco], end the autobiographical novel in two volumes, Zhizn Arsénieva (Part I, Istóki d  
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show John Galsworthy   British   The Island Pharisees (1904), The Forsyte Saga, The Silver Box (1906)  
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1931   Erik Axel Karlfeldt   Swedish   show
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1930   show American   The Trail of the Hawk, Arrowsmith, Main Street, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)  
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1929   Thomas Mann   German   show
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1928   Sigrid Undset   show Kransen (The Garland), Husfrue (The Mistress of Husaby), Korset (The Cross); and Olav Audunssøn i Hestviken (1925 ) [The Master of Hestviken] and its sequel Olav Audunssen og hans børn (1927) [Olav Audunssøn and his Children]  
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show Henri Bergson   French   Essai sur les donnes immédiates de la conscience (1889) [Time and Free Will], Introduction à la métaphysique (1903 [An Introduction to Metaphysics], Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion (1932) [The Two Sources of Morality and Religion]  
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1926   Grazia Deledda   Italian   show
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show George Bernard Shaw   British   appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898), Arms and the Man, Man and Superman (1903), Saint Joan (1923), Major Barbara  
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1924   Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont   show (Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry, 1895 [Pilgrimage to the Mountain of Light]), Komedjantka (1896) [The Comedian], Ziemia obiecana (1899) [The Promised Land], The Peasants  
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show William Butler Yeats   Irish   The Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904), and Deirdre (1907)  
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show Jacinto Benavente   Spanish   Cartas de mujeres (1892-93) [Women's Letters], were El nido ajeno (1894) [Another's Nest] and Gente conocida (1896) [High Society]  
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show Anatole France   French   Le Jardin d'Épicure (1895) [The Garden of Epicurus], Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), , La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque [At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque]  
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1920   Knut Pedersen Hamsun   Norwegian   show
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show Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler   Swiss   Olympian Spring, Prometheus und Epimetheus, Schmetterlinge (1889) [Butterflies]; Friedli der Kolderi (1891); Gustav (1892) ; Litterarische Gleichnisse (1892) [Literary Parables]; Balladen (1896); Der Gotthard (897); Conrad der Leutnant (1898); Lachende Wa  
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1918   show --   --  
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1917   show Danish   Scipio Africanus, En idealist (1878) [An Idealist], Saint Just (1885) /// Fra hytterne (1887) [From the Cottages], Det forjaettede land (1891-95) [The Promised Land], Lykke-Per (1898-1904) [Lucky Peter], and De dødes rige (1912-16) [The Kingdom of the Dea  
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1916   show Swiss   Ett folk (1902) [One People], Karolinerna (1897-98) [The Charles Men], Folkunga Trädet (1905-07) [The Tree of the Folkungs], Folke Filbyter and Bjälboarvet [The BjäIbo Inheritance]  
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1915   Romain Rolland   show Les Tragédies de la foi (1909) [Tragedies of Faith], Théâtre de la révolution (1909), : L'Aube, Le Matin, L'Adolescent, La Révolte, La Foire sur la place, Antoinette, Dans la maison, Les Amies, Le Buisson ardent, and La Nouvelle Journée [Dawn, Morning, Yo  
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show None   --   --  
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show Rabindranath Tagore   Indian   Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]  
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1912   Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   German   show
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1911   Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck   Belgian   show
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show Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse   German   Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse (Berlin, 1900) [Memories of my Youth and Confessions], Gesammelte Werke (1871-191O) [Collected Works], 36 vols.; Dramatische Dichtungen (1864-1905) [Dramatic Works], 36 vols.; Romane, Novellen, lyrische und epische Gedi  
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1909   Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf   Swiss   show
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show Rudolf Christoph Eucken   German   Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart (1908) [Main Currents of Modern Thought ], Die Lebensanschauungen der grosser Denker (1890) [The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time ], Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensi  
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1907   Rudyard Kipling   British   show
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1906   Giosuè Carducci   show Levia Gravia (1868) [Light and Heavy], Inno a Satana (1865) [Hymn to Satan], Odi barbare (1877, 1882, and 1889) [The Barbarian Odes]  
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show Henryk Sienkiewicz   Polish   Latarnik (1882) [The Lighthouse Keeper], Ogniem i mieczem [With Fire and Sword], Potop [The Deluge] and Pan Wolodyjowski [Pan Michael], Quo Vadis?  
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1904   show French /// Spanish   Miréio (1859), Calendau (1867), include Lis Isclo d'or (1876) [Islands of Gold], a collection of poems; «Nerto» (1884), a narrative poem based on a chronicle of the Avignon Popes; La Rèino Jano (1890); and Lou pouémo dóu rose (1897) [The Song of the Rhone  
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show Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson   Norwegian   Mellem slagene (Between the Battles), En hanske (1883) "A Gauntlet", Det flager i byen og på havnen(1884) "The Heritage of the Kurts" and På Guds veie (1889) "In God's Way"  
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1902   show German   A History of Rome,  
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1901   show French   , Stances et Poèmes (1865) [Stanzas and Poems], Croquis Italiens (1866-68) [Italian Notebook]; Solitudes (1869); Impressions de la guerre (1870) [Impressions of War]; Les Destins (1872) [Destinies]; La Révolte des fleurs (1872) [Revolt of the Flowers ]; L  
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