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In a novel by this author, seven men who ambush and stab a man in a courtyard fail to hear his body hit the water when they dump him in a nearby well. In a novel by this author, the djinn Mrs. Sweet and Mr. Bitter inform a fortune teller that her brother had impregnated her tattoo-artist younger sister, resulting in her poisoning him with a cyanide-laced yogurt dessert. Scenes about the Connecticut housewife Ella’s affair with a Scottish Sufi (10[1])alternate with scenes set in 13th-century Konya (10[1])in a novel by this author that depicts the love between Shams of Tabriz and Rumi. This author, who is not Orhan Pamuk, was tried (-5[1])for acknowledging (10[2])the Armenian (-5[1])genocide in a novel in which the Armenian-American (10[2])Armanoush visits the all-woman Kazancı family. For 10 points, name this contemporary author who wrote The Forty Rules of Love (10[1])and set (10[1])The Bastard of Istanbul (10[2])in (10[1])her native Turkey. (10[3]0[11])■END■

ANSWER: Elif Shafak [or Elif Şafak]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2167%0%10%131.07

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AChicago A7910
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AIllinois A8610
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AMichigan A111-5
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AToronto A11310
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ACornell A11310
David BassVirginia APenn A115-5
Justin HawkinsIndiana AColumbia A12310
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AImperial A12310
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AWUSTL B14310
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AMinnesota A14510
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BColumbia B14910
Jisoo YooTexas ACornell B14910
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern AChicago C15010
Kevin ParkClaremont APenn State A1540
Ani PerumallaPenn State AClaremont A1540
Clark SmithOhio State AFlorida A15410
Amogh KulkarniChicago BMaryland A1540
Caleb KendrickMaryland AChicago B1540
Todd MaslykMichigan AVanderbilt A1540
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BRutgers B1540
Collin AceRutgers BMinnesota B1540
Justin ChenNYU AFlorida B15410
Ashish SubramanianDuke AStanford A1540
Andrew ZengStanford ADuke A1540
Michał GerasimiukYale ABrown A1540
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AHouston A15410
John BroussardHouston AJohns Hopkins A1540