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Because a boy created by this author makes up the story as he goes, his adoptive father tells him he is not “real reading” a child’s version of Don Quixote. After arriving at Novilla in a refugee boat, Simón raises the five-year-old Davíd in the first novel of an allegorical trilogy by this author titled for Jesus. In a novel by this author, a man takes refuge in the mountains after being treated like a servant at a farm by the Visagies' (“vih-SAH-hees”) grandson. At the end of a novel by this author, a man who had written the opera Byron in Italy (10[1])decides to euthanize a dog at a shelter owned (10[1])by Bev Shaw. This author created a middle-aged professor who is fired for sexually pressuring (10[1])his student (10[1])Melanie (10[1])Isaacs. For 10 points, what South African author of Life & Times of Michael K also wrote about David Lurie in Disgrace? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: J. M. Coetzee [or John Maxwell Coetzee]
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Kevin WangGeorgia Tech BAuburn C10110
Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech ATusculum A11010
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Parker McCoigTennesse AGeorgia A12710
Ian LuGeorgia Tech FAlabama A12810
Luke ZhangEmory AAuburn B15110
Monish JampalaGeorgia Tech CClemson A1510
Braeden LaRocheSouth Carolina AGeorgia Tech D15110

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