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A character in a novel by this author hates ballpoint pens because one was jammed between his fingers every day while he was tortured in prison. In a novel by this author, an editor takes a client’s manuscript to the censors’ office in a chapter structured around the seven slaps that that editor received during a police interrogation. Characters like the Prisoner and the Factory Girl narrate chapters of a novel by this author about a boy (-5[1])who was shot during an uprising. In another novel by this author, a video artist has sex (10[1])with his (10[1])sister-in-law, (10[7]-5[1])whose petal-shaped (10[1])birthmark (10[2]-5[1])appeals (10[1])to him, after he paints their bodies (10[1])with flowers. (10[1])Deborah Smith translated a novel by this author (10[1])in which the title character is institutionalized (10[2])after a dream of slaughtered animals leads her to believe (10[1])she is a plant. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this author of Human Acts and The Vegetarian, novels set in her native Korea. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Han Kang [reject “Kang”]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2295%0%18%107.90

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Quynh PhungPurdue AVanderbilt A76-5
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Ricky LiMIT AIndiana A9510
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AToronto A9610
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BVirginia A9610
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AYale B9610
Ryan SunUC Berkeley AChicago C9610
Tim MorrisonStanford AYale A9610
Anson BernsBrown AMaryland A96-5
Clark SmithOhio State AChicago B9610
Nathan ZhangCornell ADuke A9610
Tracy MirkinFlorida AGeorgia Tech A9810
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AIllinois A9910
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL A99-5
Kevin ParkClaremont AMcGill A9910
Michael MaysImperial AFlorida B10010
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BPenn A10710
Jisoo YooTexas ANorthwestern A10910
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina AColumbia A11710
Ani PerumallaPenn State AIowa State A12410
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ACornell B12410
Andrew HannaVanderbilt APurdue A13410
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins A138-5
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