:Donna Tartt

{{Infobox writer

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| name = Donna Tartt

| caption = Tartt in 2015

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|12|23}}

| birth_place = Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S.

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| occupation = Fiction writer

| period = 1992–present

| education = University of Mississippi
Bennington College (BA)

| movement = Literary fiction

| notableworks = The Secret History (1992)
The Little Friend (2002)
The Goldfinch (2013)

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{{Awards|award=Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |year=2014 |title=The Goldfinch |role= |name= }}

{{Awards|award=Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction |year=2014 |title=The Goldfinch |role= |name= }}

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Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963){{cite web |last1=Kuiper |first1=Kathleen |title=Donna Tartt |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Donna-Tartt |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en |date=2020-12-19}} is an American novelist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name.{{cite web |author=Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara |date=February 12, 2013 |title=Donna Tartts Long Awaited Third Novel Will Be Published This Year |url=http://observer.com/2013/02/donna-tartts-long-awaited-thir-novel-will-be-published-this-year/ |access-date=October 15, 2013 |work=New York Observer}} She was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.Patchett, Ann (April 23, 2014). [http://time.com/70819/donna-tartt-2014-time-100/ "Donna Tartt"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408073341/https://time.com/70819/donna-tartt-2014-time-100/ |date=April 8, 2020 }}. Time.

Early life and education

Donna Louise Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, the elder of two daughters. She was raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her father, Don Tartt, was a rockabilly musician, turned freeway "service station owner-cum-local politician", while her mother, Taylor, was a secretary.{{cite news |last1=Ybarra |first1=Michael J. |title=Famous and yet unknown |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-08-ca-ybarra8-story.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=8 December 2002}}{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Mick |title=The Goldfinch author Donna Tartt: 'If I'm not working, I'm not happy' |url=https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/books/the-goldfinch-author-donna-tartt-if-im-not-working-im-not-happy-1.1271081 |website=Gulf News |access-date=31 January 2021 |language=en |date=December 26, 2013}} Her parents were avid readers, and her mother would read while driving.{{cite web |title=Your guide to mysterious literary genius Donna Tartt |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/38063/1/your-guide-to-mysterious-literary-genius-donna-tartt |website=Dazed |access-date=31 January 2021 |language=en |date=14 November 2017}} As a child, Tartt memorized "really long poems by A. A. Milne", and described herself as a "horrible repository of doggerel verse."

Tartt wrote her first poem in 1968, when she was five years old.{{cite web |title=Donna Tartt (1963- ) |url=http://mwp.olemiss.edu//dir/tartt_donna/ |website=Mississippi Writers Page |publisher=English Department, University of Mississippi |access-date=31 January 2021 |date=November 9, 2015 |archive-date=October 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010205522/http://mwp.olemiss.edu//dir/tartt_donna/ |url-status=dead }} She was first published at 13, when a sonnet was included in a 1976 edition of the Mississippi Review.{{cite magazine|author=Kaplan, James|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1992/09/donna-tartt-the-secret-history|title=Smart Tartt: Introducing Donna Tartt|date=September 1992|access-date=February 22, 2019|magazine=Vanity Fair}}{{cite web |title=The Mississippi Literary Review. (University of Mississippi) Volume I, Number 1, November, 1941 - first and only issue |url=https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/44/lot/9655/The-Mississippi-Literary-Review-Volume-I-Number-1-first-and-only-issue |website=PB Auction Galleries, Inc. |access-date=31 January 2021 |language=en}} In high school, she was a freshman cheerleader for the basketball team and worked in the public library.{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Jones Library |url=https://librarytechnology.org/library/20519 |website=librarytechnology.org |access-date=31 January 2021}}{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Jones Library |url=https://elizabeth.lib.ms.us/ |website=Elizabeth Jones Library |access-date=31 January 2021}} Tartt's essays about patriotism and alcoholism won prizes, and she also wrote "short stories about death" during this period.

In 1981, Tartt enrolled in the University of Mississippi, where she pledged for the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and wrote short stories for The Daily Mississippian. An editor at the paper gave one of her stories to prominent writer Willie Morris, who found Tartt at the Holiday Inn bar one evening and declared her "a genius."{{cite web |last1=Tartt |first1=Donna |title=My friend, my mentor, my inspiration |url=http://www.languageisavirus.com/donna_tartt/non-fiction-myfriendmymentor.php |website=Remembering Willie |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |access-date=31 January 2021}}{{cite web |title=Donna Tartt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/donna-tartt?page=6 |website=The Guardian |access-date=31 January 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Ross |first1=Peter Ross |title=Donna Tartt |url=https://peterross.scot/articles/donna-tartt/ |access-date=31 January 2021 |work=Sunday Herald |date=November 2002}}Oxford, Mississippi#Media Following a recommendation from Morris, Barry Hannah, then an Ole Miss writer-in-residence, admitted the 18-year-old Tartt into his graduate course on the short story. Hannah referred to her as "deeply literary" and "a literary star."{{cite web|author=Galbraith, Lacey|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5438/the-art-of-fiction-no-184-barry-hannah|title=Interview: Barry Hannah, The Art of Fiction|date=Winter 2004|access-date=October 15, 2013|work=Paris Review, no. 184}}

In 1982, following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College. At Bennington, Tartt studied classics with Claude Fredericks, and also met Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Jill Eisenstadt. Tartt graduated in 1986 with a degree in Philosophy.{{Cite web |last=Adams |first=John |date=1993-10-06 |title=Donna Tartt |url=https://www.john-adams.nl/donna-tartt/ |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=John Adams Institute (Netherlands) |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last1=McCaffrey |first1=Caitlin |author2=Bennington College |author2-link=Bennington College |title=Donna Tartt, '86, photograph, circa 1992 |url=https://issuu.com/benningtoncollege/docs/2007_75thanniversary_bcmag/67 |website=75 Years of Pioneering Innovation |date=January 13, 2014 |publisher=Issuu |access-date=31 January 2021 |page=67 |language=en}}

Career

The Secret History (1992){{cite web |last1=Steinz |first1=Pieter |title=Donna Tartt on The Secret History |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlfDiV85joo |website=The John Adams Institute |publisher=John Adams Institute |access-date=31 January 2021 |date=March 14, 1993}}{{cite web |title=Donna Tartt interview (1992) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oo-wNuP9tU |publisher=YouTube |access-date=31 January 2021}} was derived from her time at Bennington College.{{cite journal |last1=Anolik |first1=Lili |title=Money, Madness, Cocaine and Literary Genius: An Oral History of the 1980s' Most Decadent College |journal=Esquire |date=28 May 2019 |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a27434009/bennington-college-oral-history-bret-easton-ellis/}} Amanda Urban was her agent and the novel became a critical and financial success.{{cite web |title=Donna Tartt (1963- ) |url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/tartt_donna/ |website=Mississippi Writers Page |publisher=Ole Miss |access-date=31 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991003121348/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/tartt_donna/ |archive-date=3 October 1999}}{{cite news |last1=Fein |first1=Esther B. |date=16 November 1992 |title=The Media Business; The Marketing of a Cause Celebre (Published 1992) |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/16/business/the-media-business-the-marketing-of-a-cause-celebre.html |access-date=31 January 2021}} Vanity Fair called 29-year-old Tartt a precocious literary genius.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/goldfinch-donna-tartt-literary-criticism |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=June 11, 2014 |first=Evgenia |last=Peretz |title=It's Tartt—But Is It Art? |access-date=July 18, 2020 }}

Tartt's novel The Little Friend (2002) was first published in Dutch because her books sold more per capita in the Netherlands than elsewhere.{{cite web |last1=Buchsbaum |first1=Tony |title=Review {{!}} The Little Friend by Donna Tartt |url=https://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/littlefriend.html |website=January Magazine |access-date=1 February 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Francie |title=Her brother's keeper |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-10-bk-lin10-story.html |access-date=1 February 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=10 November 2002}}{{cite news |last1=Thorpe |first1=Vanessa |title=The secret history of Donna Tartt's new novel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/28/books.booksnews |access-date=1 February 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=28 July 2002 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Mabe |first1=Chauncey |title=Tartt, A Dutch Treat, Stirs A Storm At Home |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2002-11-10-0211090074-story.html |access-date=1 February 2021 |work=Sun-Sentinel |date=2002-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201041138/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AcdfzKM9lYEEJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2Fnews%2Ffl-xpm-2002-11-10-0211090074-story.html |archive-date=1 February 2021}}{{cite magazine |last1=Patterson |first1=Troy |title=The Little Friend |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/11/01/little-friend/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=1 February 2021 |language=EN |date=2002-11-01}}

In 2006, Tartt's short story "The Ambush" was included in the Best American Short Stories 2006.{{cite journal |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ann-patchett/the-best-american-short-stories-2006/ |title=The Best American Short Stories 2006 |journal=Kirkus Reviews |date=August 15, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2020 }}

Her 2013 novel The Goldfinch was a bestseller and received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, though some critics felt the novel was juvenile and not literary.{{cite web |last1=Kakutani |first1=Michiko |title=A Painting as Talisman, as Enduring as Loved Ones Are Not |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/books/the-goldfinch-a-dickensian-novel-by-donna-tartt.html |website=The New York Times |date=7 October 2013}}{{cite magazine |last1=Wood |first1=James |title=The New Curiosity Shop |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 14, 2013 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/21/the-new-curiosity-shop |access-date=31 January 2021 |language=en-us}} The book was adapted into the movie The Goldfinch, which was a critical and commercial failure.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/26/the-goldfinch-review|title = The Goldfinch review – Donna Tartt's art-theft epic has its wings clipped | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week| website=TheGuardian.com |date = September 26, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/09/15/box-office-the-goldfinch-flops-in-another-disaster-for-warner-bros-doomed-dramas/|title = Box Office: 'The Goldfinch' Flops in Another Disaster for Warner Bros.' Doomed Dramas| website=Forbes }} Tartt was not given the option to write the screenplay or act as a producer for the film, and reportedly fired longtime agent Amanda Urban over the deal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a28954524/donna-tartt-secret-history-movie/|title=Why Donna Tartt's the Secret History Never Became a Movie|date=September 15, 2019}}

Tartt is a convert to Catholicism and contributed an essay, "The spirit and writing in a secular world", to The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture (2000). In her essay she wrote that "faith is vital in the process of making my work and in the reasons I am driven to make it."{{Cite news|url=http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/12/donna-tartts-goldfinch|title=Donna Tartt's Goldfinch |first=William |last= Doino Jr.|work=First Things |date=December 9, 2013 |access-date=March 22, 2018}} However, Tartt also warned of the danger of writers who impose their beliefs or convictions on their novels. She wrote that writers should "shy from asserting those convictions directly in their work."

She has spent about ten years writing each of her novels.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/interview-the-very-very-private-life-of-ms-donna-tartt-29780543.html |title=Interview: The very, very private life of Ms Donna Tartt |newspaper=The Irish Independent |date=November 24, 2013 |access-date=July 19, 2020 }}

Personal life

In 2002, it was reported that Tartt had lived in Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side,{{cite news |last1=Cryer |first1=Dan |title=Her Own Twist / Donna Tartt says she writes the kind of old-fashioned novels that suit her taste. Luckily, other people seem to like them, too. |url=https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/her-own-twist-donna-tartt-says-she-writes-the-kind-of-old-fashioned-novels-that-suit-her-taste-luckily-other-people-seem-to-like-them-too-1.299531 |access-date=31 January 2021 |work=Newsday |date=November 4, 2002 |language=en}} and on a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.{{cite news |title=A most complex Lolita |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/a-most-complex-lolita-20021102-gdfs4s.html |access-date=31 January 2021 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=2 November 2002 |language=en}}, Tartt is {{Convert|5|ft}} tall.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-08-ca-ybarra8-story.html|title = Famous and yet unknown |work=Los Angeles Times |date = December 8, 2002}} She has also stated that she would never get married.{{cite news |last1=Viner |first1=Katharine |title=Interview: Donna Tartt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/19/fiction.features |access-date=31 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=19 October 2002 |language=en}}

In 2013, Tartt claimed that she was not a recluse while stressing the freedoms of shutting the door, closing the curtains, and not participating in the life of culture.

In 2016, Tartt's cousin, police officer James Lee Tartt, was killed while on duty.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/20/mississippi-standoff-police-officer-killed |title=Law enforcement agent killed and three others wounded in Mississippi standoff |author=Associated Press in Iuka, Mississippi |website=TheGuardian.com |date=February 20, 2016 |access-date=July 18, 2022}}

As of 2016, Virginia Living published that Tartt lived with art gallery owner Neal Guma in Charlottesville, Virginia, on a property they purchased together in 1997.{{Cite news |url=https://www.virginialiving.com/culture/arresting-images/ |title=Arresting Images |website=virginialiving.com}} Tartt also dedicated her second novel to someone named Neal, although she did not elaborate on his identity.

Awards

2003 WH Smith Literary Award – The Little Friend
2003 Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist – The Little Friend
2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction) shortlist – The Goldfinch{{cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014055/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2014 |title=Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |date=January 14, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2014}}
2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist – The Goldfinch{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/07/donna-tartt-baileys-womens-prize-fiction-2012-shortlist |title=Donna Tartt Heads Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 Shortlist |work=The Guardian |author=Brown, Mark |date=April 7, 2014 |access-date=April 11, 2014}}
2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – The Goldfinch{{Cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/donna-tartt|title=The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|access-date=March 22, 2018}}
2014 Time 100 Most Influential People
2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction – The Goldfinch{{Cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult|title=Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction {{!}} Awards & Grants|website=www.ala.org|language=en|access-date=March 22, 2018}}
2014 Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2014/aug/07/vanity-fairs-best-dressed-list-donna-tartts-life-long-style |title=Vanity Fair's best-dressed list: Donna Tartt's life-long style |date=August 7, 2014|newspaper=The Guardian |language=en |access-date=March 22, 2018}}

Bibliography

=Works authored by=

==Novels==

The Secret History (1992, Alfred A. Knopf)
The Little Friend (2002, Alfred A. Knopf)
The Goldfinch (2013, Little, Brown)

==Short stories==

"Tam-O'-Shanter", The New Yorker, April 19, 1993, pp. 90–91{{cite magazine|first=Donna|last=Tartt|title= Fiction: Tam-O'-Shanter

|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1993/04/19/1993_04_19_090_TNY_CARDS_000362364|format=abstract|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 19, 1993|access-date=January 14, 2008 }}

"A Christmas Pageant", Harper's Magazine 287.1723, December 1993, pp. 45–51
"A Garter Snake", GQ 65.5, May 1995, pp. 89ff
"The Ambush", The Guardian, June 25, 2005

==Nonfiction==

"Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine", Harper's Magazine 285.1706, July 1992, pp. 60–66

::Tartt's great-grandfather gave the five-year-old, for tonsillitis, whiskey, and codeine cough syrup, for two years, when kept home due to tonsillitis, she would read and write poetry.{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Cameron |title=Profile: Donna Tartt |url=https://southernlitreview.com/authors/profile-donna-tartt.htm |website=Southern Literary Review |access-date=31 January 2021 |date=11 January 2012}}

"Basketball Season" in The Best American Sports Writing, edited and with an introduction by Frank Deford, Houghton Mifflin, 1993
"Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team", Harper's Magazine 288.1727, April 1994, pp. 37–40
"My friend, my mentor, my inspiration". in {{cite book |title=Remembering Willie |date=2000 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-267-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iB0gAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}
"Afterword" in True Grit, Charles Portis, Overlook Press, New York, 2010, pp. 255–267
"Art and Artifice" in Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel, Little Brown Book Group, 2025. {{ISBN|9780349147895}}.{{Cite news |title=Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2024/07/art-and-artifice-donna-tartt/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250123120455/https://harpers.org/archive/2024/07/art-and-artifice-donna-tartt/ |archive-date=2025-01-23 |access-date=2025-04-30 |work=Harper's Magazine |language=en-US}}

=Audiobooks read by=

==Works by Tartt==

The Secret History
The Little Friend (abridged)
The Goldfinch

==Works by others==

True Grit by Charles Portis (read by and with an afterword by Tartt)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (selections)

References

General references

Hargreaves, Tracy (2001). Donna Tartt's "The Secret History". New York and London: Continuum International Publishing Group. {{ISBN|0-8264-5320-1}}.
Kakutani, Michiko (1992). [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/books/books-of-the-times-students-indulging-in-course-of-destruction.html "Students Indulging in Course of Destruction"]. The New York Times, September 4, 1992.
Kaplan, James (September 1992). [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1992/09/donna-tartt-the-secret-history "Smart Tartt"]. Vanity Fair.
McOran-Campbell, Adrian (August 2000). The Secret History.
Tartt, Donna (2000). "Spanish Grandeur in Mississippi". Oxford American, [https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/itemlist/category/55-issue-41-fall-2001 Fall 2000].
Yee, Danny (1994). [http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Secret_History.html "Studying Ancient Greek Warps the Mind of the Young?"]
{{cite journal |last1=Corrigan |first1=Yuri |title=Donna Tartt's Dostoevsky: Trauma and the Displaced Self |journal=Comparative Literature |date=1 December 2018 |volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=392–407 |doi=10.1215/00104124-7215462|s2cid=165480509 }}

External links

[http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum77.html Donna Tartt interviewed] by Robert Birnbaum at identitytheory.com
[http://bombmagazine.org/article/1584/donna-tartt Tartt Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604184138/http://bombmagazine.org/article/1584/donna-tartt |date=June 4, 2015 }} with Jill Eisenstadt in Bomb
{{cite web |last1=Steinz |first1=Pieter |title=Donna Tartt, in conversation. |url=https://www.john-adams.nl/donna-tartt/ |website=John Adams Institute (Netherlands) |access-date=1 February 2021 |location=De Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam |date=March 14, 1993}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlfDiV85joo video] at YouTube
[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1010888 Donna Tartt and Anne Rice interviewed] by Ray Suarez, NPR: Talk of the Nation: (October 30, 1997)
[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=832803 Donna Tartt interviewed] by Lynn Neary, NPR: Talk of the Nation: (November 5, 2002)
[http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=5773 Tartt on reading and her Scottish grandmother] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207072230/http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=5773 |date=February 7, 2012 }} at Maud Newton
[http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=6053 Tartt in Vogue on her teenage worship of Hunter S. Thompson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407045645/http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=6053 |date=April 7, 2013 }} at Maud Newton
{{cite web |title=Donna Tartt and Lorrie Moore talk about the writing process |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GZNZqVgUI |website=YouTube| date=January 4, 2021 }}
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03nrrbm/Bookclub_Donna_Tartt_The_Secret_History/ Donna Tartt interviewed by James Naughtie] at BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub (January 5, 2014)

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