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An author from this country infuriated her own sister with a semi-autobiographical novel in which the narrator’s sexually abusive father only bequeaths the family’s cabins to her siblings. That 2016 novel by an author from this country is titled Will and Testament. (15[1])In a work by an author from this country, the narrator and his brother clean their grandmother's house after she discovers the corpse of their alcoholic father. A 400-page (*) essay by that author links the Nazis to a mass shooter from this country. Scandal surrounded an author from this country’s decision to use his family’s real names in a six-volume autobiographical series titled My Struggle. For 10 points, name this country, the birthplace of Vigdis Hjorth and Karl Ove Knausgaard. ■END■

ANSWER: Norway [or Norge] (the mass shooter discussed by Knausgaard is Anders Breivik.)
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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y1100%0%0%101.00
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