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    Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Ocean Vuong have won the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.

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    Decades of Alan Rickman’s diaries will be published as a book in 2022.

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    Joy Harjo will serve a rare third term as United States Poet Laureate.

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