A story by this author centers on the monk Lorenzo, who is ostracized for having a child with an umbrella maker’s daughter, but is revealed to be a woman after saving the child from a burning building. In a story by this author of “The Death of a Disciple,” the narrator reflects that he sees a fire every time he returns to the capital after his arsonist brother-in-law is hit by a train. This author created a character who binds one of his apprentices with chains and attacks another with a horned owl to study their pained expressions. In that story by this author, an artist watches as his daughter and her pet monkey are burned alive in a carriage by Lord Horikawa to inspire the title artwork. For 10 points, what author of the stories “Cogwheels” and “Hell Screen” names a Japanese literary prize? ■END■
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| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley B | 17 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 19 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Tufts A | 28 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Rutgers A | 28 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Manchester | 48 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU B | 67 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 72 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 85 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois B | 85 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 92 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 94 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard B | 96 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Haverford A | 96 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 97 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago D | 97 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 97 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 97 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown A | UMass Boston | 100 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 106 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | NYU C | 110 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Chicago C | 113 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 113 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | George Washington B | 113 | 10 |
| Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Sheffield | 114 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 116 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham | 116 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC C | 119 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 119 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 120 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 121 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 131 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont B | 132 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 138 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | Alberta | 138 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 139 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 139 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 140 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland A | 141 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 142 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Oxford C | 142 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 144 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Wake Forest | 145 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois A | 145 | 0 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 145 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis B | 145 | 0 |
| Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Southampton B | 145 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 145 | 0 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Imperial A | 145 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial B | 145 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Penn B | 145 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 145 | 0 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 145 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | ESF A | 145 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 145 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 145 | 10 |