A poet from this country described cheerfully confronting Charon on the River Styx “like a scandal” in one poem and wrote the collection Tongues of Diamond. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this home country of Juana de Ibarbourou. The author of The Truce and the verse novel Juan Ángel’s Birthday, Mario Benedetti, is also from this country.
ANSWER: Uruguay [or Oriental Republic of Uruguay; or Eastern Republic of Uruguay; or República Oriental del Uruguay]
[10e] After contracting phlebitis in Mexico, this author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair briefly moved to Uruguay with his nurse Matilde Urrutia.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
[10m] This Uruguayan-born author of Jungle Tales wrote about four brothers who kill their sister in the story “The Decapitated Chicken,” and a story in which Alicia is killed by the title bloodsucking “Feather Pillow.”
ANSWER: Horacio Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza]
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