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What award did'Gödel, Escher, Bach' win in 1980?

  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

  • National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

  • Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Man Booker International Award

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Gödel, Escher, Bach won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1980. The book is a complex and challenging work of philosophy, mathematics, and art. It explores the relationship between mathematics and the human mind, and the nature of consciousness. The book has been praised for its originality and insight, but it has also been criticized for its difficulty and obscurity.
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