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2017 Origins Award winners

List of award recipients

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ96369483 ↗
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The following are the winners of the 44th annual (2017) Origins Award, presented at Origins 2018:

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This entry incorporates text from “2017 Origins Award winners” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.