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diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
index a5ae4d14dc..9e9f18c058 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
@@ -1228,4 +1228,30 @@ lets you set up HTTP connections, transmitting requests and processing the
responses coming back.")
(license bsd-3)))
+(define-public ghc-async
+ (package
+ (name "ghc-async")
+ (version "2.0.2")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "http://hackage.haskell.org/package/async/async-"
+ version
+ ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0azx4qk65a9a2gvqsfmz3w89m6shzr2iz0i5lly2zvly4n2d6m6v"))))
+ (build-system haskell-build-system)
+ (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ; FIXME: testing libraries are missing.
+ (propagated-inputs
+ `(("ghc-stm" ,ghc-stm)))
+ (home-page "https://github.com/simonmar/async")
+ (synopsis "Library to run IO operations asynchronously")
+ (description "Async provides a library to run IO operations
+asynchronously, and wait for their results. It is a higher-level interface
+over threads in Haskell, in which @code{Async a} is a concurrent thread that
+will eventually deliver a value of type @code{a}.")
+ (license bsd-3)))
+
;;; haskell.scm ends here