This author’s first novel, which follows a widow who engages in an affair with her brother-in-law, was retitled Land of Sin. A character created by this author works at the “Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths.” In a novel by this author, whose sequel was translated by this author’s widow Pilar del Río, a character uses a stiletto heel to kick a car thief who is shot after developing an infection. In the sequel to a novel by this author of All the Names, a “dog of tears” reappears as the only named character and an election occurs in which the majority of ballots are blank. In a novel by this author, characters like the girl with the dark glasses are quarantined in a ward and the doctor’s wife is the only one not affected by the title “white sickness.” For 10 points, name this Portuguese author of Blindness. ■END■
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| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 35 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 36 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech C | 36 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Texas A | 39 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 41 | -5 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCLA C | 42 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 61 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McGill C | 61 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue B | 62 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto K | 63 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Alberta B | 63 | 10 |
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| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Southampton A | 64 | -5 |
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| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 67 | 10 |
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| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 67 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto I | 68 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester B | 69 | 10 |
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| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 70 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill A | 71 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 88 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Durham B | 88 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 89 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Carleton | 89 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill B | 89 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UCF A | 89 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago C | 89 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Chicago D | 89 | -5 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Louisville B | 89 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Kentucky | 89 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 89 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield A | 89 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE A | 89 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 92 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | McMaster B | 94 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCLA B | 97 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota B | 104 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford A | 104 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Pitzer | 106 | 10 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin | Iowa State | 106 | -5 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Imperial C | 111 | -5 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska | Minnesota C | 113 | -5 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Wisconsin | 120 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | City St George's A | 133 | 10 |
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| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | UAB A | 136 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 138 | 10 |
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| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Notre Dame D | 138 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 138 | -5 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto C | 139 | 10 |
| Lee Huynh | Guelph B | Toronto F | 140 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 140 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 140 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern C | 140 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 140 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Oxford B | 140 | -5 |
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| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 143 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 147 | 10 |
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| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Michigan C | 150 | 0 |
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| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 150 | 0 |
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| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 150 | 0 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 150 | 0 |
| Elijah Pollock | UTD A | UTD B | 150 | 0 |
| David Latimer | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 150 | 0 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Southampton B | 150 | 10 |