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Kuszyk received the Kulturpreis Schlesien of the state of Lower Saxony and, together with Bernhard Hartmann, the Georg Dehio Book Prize. She works as a journalist for \u00abZeit Online\u00bb, \u00abDeutschlandradio Kultur\u00bb, and \u00abRBB\u00bb. 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