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An author in this novel kills off many of his characters in a fire after suffering burnout. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, whose title characters are the hack author Pedro Camacho and a relative of the protagonist whom he attempts to marry.
ANSWER: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter [or La tía Julia y el escribidor]
[10e] In Mario Vargas Llosa’s (“VAR-gas YOH-sah’s”) novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Camacho writes soap operas for this broadcast medium. A 1938 broadcast of a version of The War of the Worlds via this medium incited mass panic.
ANSWER: radio plays [or radio dramas]
[10h] In one of Camacho’s dramas, a policeman dies in a fire before later reappearing and undergoing this action. This action partly titles a story in which Esteban’s body prompts villagers to make some massive clothes.
ANSWER: drowning [or ahogado or ahogar; accept “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” or “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”; prompt on shipwrecks] (“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” is by Gabriel García Márquez.)
<Joseph Krol, Literature - World and Miscellaneous&gt; ~15053~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>

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Thomas Jefferson BBarrington A10101030
Canyon CrestDallas County010010
MexicoChattahoochee B10101030
Richard MontgomeryDetroit Country Day10101030
DunbarHunter A010010
HeightsNew Brighton1010020
Irvington AHinsdale Central1010020
Johns Creek ABelmont1010020
Maggie Walker CMidtown0101020
Northmont AWinnebago10101030
PlymouthMira Loma10101030
Rockford Auburn AWoodland10101030
Parkway WestStevenson A1010020
TroyWilliam Fremd1010020
University LabSolon10101030
Choate Rosemary HallWalter Payton10101030
Winston Churchill AKinkaid0101020
Innovation Academy AWinston Churchill B10101030