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Sculptures of a headless and limbless Dionysus, this man’s estranged wife, and a reclining sculpture of him in a red and green jacket feature in a three-sculpture memorial by Danny Osborne. Police presence prevented a sculptor from working on a piece named for this man due to his choice to include testicles. (10[1])This man’s (10[1])grinning face and a hand holding a cigarette emerge from a bench-like sarcophagus in a Maggi Hambling sculpture (10[1])titled for “A Conversation with” him. A glass barrier (10[1])was installed (10[1])in front of a (10[1])sculpture of this (10[1])man (10[1])in the Père Lachaise (10[1])(“pair lah-SHEZ”) Cemetery (10[4]-5[1])to prevent (10[1])people from leaving (10[2])lipstick (10[1])kisses (-5[1])on it. (10[2])This writer’s tomb, which (10[1])includes boxy stone slabs abutting a sphinxlike creature, was sculpted by Jacob Epstein. For 10 points, name this writer whose epitaph is adorned with lines from his poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde [or Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde; accept Oscar Wilde’s tomb; accept A Conversation with Oscar Wilde]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%10%92.00

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Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech AMichigan A5110
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Tracy MirkinFlorida AWUSTL A8010
Tim MorrisonStanford AMinnesota B8210
Joel MilesMinnesota AVanderbilt A8610
Cormac BeirneMcGill AWUSTL B8910
Halle FriedmanNYU ABrown A9010
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AVirginia A9410
Claire JonesChicago AMaryland A95-5
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina AIndiana A9510
Daniel SheinbergYale ARutgers B9510
Raymond JiangGeorgia Tech BNorthwestern A9510
Nathan ZhangCornell ANorth Carolina A9510
Caleb KendrickMaryland AChicago A9710
Kevin ParkClaremont ACornell B10010
Chris RayOhio State AUC Berkeley B10010
Justin WytmarIllinois AFlorida B10110
Karsten RynearsonYale BToronto A102-5
Celina LiangPenn ARutgers A10410
Vivek SasseChicago BImperial A10410
Jisoo YooTexas AColumbia A10810
Wenying WuToronto AYale B14210