Question
An author from this country wrote a Septology that consists of seven stream-of-consciousness novels about a widowed painter with an alcoholic doppelgänger. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this home country of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse (“yohn FOH-suh”). This country is also home to the author of the autobiographical novel sequence My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgård, and the novel Hunger, Knut Hamsun.
ANSWER: Norway [or Kingdom of Norway or Kongeriket Norge]
[10h] This emotion titles two of Fosse’s novels about the breakdown and death of the painter Lars Hertervig. In another novel titled for this emotion, a circus displaying only an enormous whale arrives in Valuska’s small Hungarian town.
ANSWER: melancholy [or Melancholia I; or Melancholia II; or The Melancholy of Resistance; or Az ellenállás melankóliája]
[10m] A husband and wife have a conversation in a cemetery in a play by Fosse titled for this type of event and “autumn.” Indra’s daughter Agnes descends to Earth in an August Strindberg play titled for this type of event.
ANSWER: dream [or Dream of Autumn; or A Dream Play]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 78% | 22% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Virginia B (UG) | Duke A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GWU A (UG) | UNC D (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| GWU B (Grad) | William & Mary A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia C (UG) | JMU A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland C (DII) | Liberty A (Grad) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A (UG) | Liberty B (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | Liberty C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland B (UG) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UNC B (UG) | JMU B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |