Question

A narrator created by this author eats cornflakes with sour milk and is forced to consume apples until he vomits. This author wrote about a man who cuts his face with glass after being rejected by his future wife Linda, a writer who suffers from bipolar disorder. In extended passages by this author, the protagonist attends a toddler’s birthday party and cleans his grandmother’s filthy house. This author’s recent (-5[1])output (-5[1])includes the philosophical novel The Morning Star and four (10[1])essay collections titled for the seasons. This author concluded his (10[2])most (-5[1])famous work with a (10[1])novel in which he is threatened for publicly revealing family (10[1])secrets. (10[2])The demise (10[1])of the protagonist’s alcoholic (10[1])father (10[1])is described in his novel (10[2])A Death in the Family, (10[2]-5[4])the first of six volumes in a highly-detailed autobiographical series. For 10 points, (10[1])name this Norwegian author who referenced Hitler in the title of his (10[1])series My Struggle. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Karl Ove Knausgård
<European Literature>
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2488%0%29%118.43

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley ATexas A68-5
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AColumbia B69-5
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AChicago B7810
Tracy MirkinFlorida AChicago A8810
Tim MorrisonStanford AMaryland A8810
Ricky LiMIT ANorth Carolina A89-5
Todd MaslykMichigan AJohns Hopkins A9310
Anson BernsBrown AOhio State A10310
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BGeorgia Tech B10410
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BUC Berkeley B10410
Ani PerumallaPenn State AYale B10610
Raymond ChenToronto AChicago C11010
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AFlorida B11110
Halle FriedmanNYU AHouston A11610
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ADuke A11610
Mitch McCullarIllinois AVirginia A12110
Darren PetrosinoRutgers ASouth Carolina A12110
Justin HawkinsIndiana AHarvard A121-5
Rosa XiaCornell BColumbia A121-5
Raymond WangCornell AYale A121-5
Guy IndoranteIowa State AMcGill A121-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AClaremont A13410
Enoch YuenImperial ARutgers B14610
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AMIT A14910
Arthur Delot-VilainYale ACornell A14910
Mazin OmerHarvard AIndiana A15010
Noah ChenColumbia BVanderbilt A1500
Jisoo YooTexas AUC Berkeley A15010
Kevin FanMcGill AIowa State A1500
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AMinnesota A15010