A cartoon depicting this dictator as a crying baby brought Moomins creator Tove Jansson (“TOH-vuh YAN-son”) to fame. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this dictator who inspired the title of Karl Ove Knausgård’s (“OH-vuh K’NOWZ-guards”) series My Struggle with his own book Mein Kampf.
ANSWER: Adolf Hitler
[10h] This author controversially wrote a positive obituary for Hitler more than 50 years after he wrote the pioneering short modernist novel Hunger.
ANSWER: Knut Hamsun [or Knut Pedersen]
[10m] Around the time she railed against Hitler in her War Diaries, Astrid Lindgren wrote the first stories about this extremely strong character who lives in Villa Villekulla (“VILL-uh-KOO-luh”).
ANSWER: Pippi Longstocking [accept either underlined; or Pippi Långstrump]
<Joseph Krol, Literature - European - Short Fiction> ~20121~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>