An author from this country interspersed personal diary entries in a fictional narrative about a port city titled for two viewpoints of a fox. In a novel from this country, one character has his business burnt down after he abducts a woman who had earlier had her eyes and tongue pecked out by vultures. That novel from this country is split between sections “in the desert” and “in the jungle” and was inspired by a brothel near the author’s childhood town. The question “At what point did [this country] fuck itself up” opens a novel consisting of an interview between Ambrosio and Santiago Zamala. An author from this country wrote a novel about a writer of telenovelas at the radio station Panamericana. For 10 points, name this home country of the author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa. ■END■
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| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 27% | 110.78 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 113.60 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
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| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Ottawa | 53 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Southern Connecticut State | 58 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Oxford A | 69 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard A | 80 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | CWRU A | 80 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 85 | -5 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | City St. George's | 86 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 88 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Waterloo A | 88 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 91 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 92 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Western B | 99 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins B | 102 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan C | 103 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC A | 115 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 116 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Johns Hopkins A | 116 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Maryland A | 118 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UCSD A | 120 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Toronto F | 120 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | NYU C | 120 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | McMaster B | 120 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph | Western C | 120 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 121 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto G | 121 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Oxford B | 121 | 10 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 121 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Cambridge B | 121 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Rutgers B | 121 | -5 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western A | 121 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 124 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Cambridge C | 134 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Waterloo B | 137 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Imperial C | 137 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Columbia A | 137 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Toronto D | 138 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 140 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State | UCSD C | 141 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto F | McGill B | 141 | 0 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 141 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 141 | 0 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Dartmouth A | 141 | 0 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 141 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Harvard B | 141 | 0 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth B | 141 | 0 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Catholic | 141 | 0 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Vassar | 141 | 0 |