Question

In one work, a poet from this country described people with “a particular face and blood well hidden” who “jumped from burning floors.” An author from this country described a William Blake translator solving her neighbour Big Foot’s murder (15[1])in a 2009 (15[1])novel that she followed up with The Books of Jacob. A poet from this country wrote that “after every war, someone has to clean up” in “The (*) End and the Beginning.” A novelist from this country wrote Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of (10[1])the Dead and the fragmentary novel Flights. Another author from this country described the effects on “Alpha” and “Beta” of Soviet-aligned totalitarianism in The Captive Mind. For 10 points, name this country whose most recent Nobel-winning authors are Olga Tokarczuk (“to-KAR-chuk”), Wisława Szymborska (“vee-SWAH-vah shim-BOR-ska”), and Czesław Miłosz ■END■

ANSWER: Poland [or Rzeczpospolita Polska] (The first poem is Szymborska’s “Photograph of September 11.”)
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2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%67%0%54.67