Question

An author with this surname drew on the Boko Haram schoolgirl kidnappings in her 2019 final novel Girl, wrote about Cait and Baba in a trilogy beginning with The Country Girls, (10[1])and had the first name Edna. (10[1]-5[1])In a novel by an author with this assumed surname, fourteen one-legged men attempt to prevent the hanging of a nameless man. A press specializing in experimental fiction is named after a novel by an author with this surname that features Saint Augustine and James Joyce. A man created by that author (10[1])with this surname kills Mathers with a spade and uses a cash box containing omnium (10[1])to write commentaries on the philosopher De Selby. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])the Irish (-5[1])modernist (10[2])author (10[1])of The Dalkey Archive and The Third Policeman (10[4])shares (10[1])what surname (10[1])with a (10[1])member (10[2])of the Thought Police (10[2])from (-5[1])1984? (10[3]-5[1])■END■ (10[12]0[21])

ANSWER: O’Brien [accept Edna O’Brien or Flann O’Brien; accept Brian O’Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen or Myles na Gopaleen]
<Southampton A, British Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

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