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The title character of a novel attempts to get his lover DD and best friend Jaki to circulate his pictures exposing the brutality of this country’s civil war. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country. A recently-murdered gay photographer has one week to find his killer in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which is set in this country.
ANSWER: Sri Lanka [or Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; accept Ceylon]
[10e] In 2022, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida won this prize whose eligibility expanded from Commonwealth novels to all English-language novels in 2014. After 2019, this literary prize dropped “Man” from its name.
ANSWER: Booker Prize [or Booker Prize for Fiction or Man Booker Prize]
[10m] The only other Sri Lankan-born author to win a Booker is this Sri Lankan-Canadian who wrote about Laszlo de Almasy’s recovery at an Italian villa in The English Patient.
ANSWER: Michael Ondaatje [or Philip Michael Ondaatje]
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CWRU A (UG)CWRU C (UG)010010
OSU CKenyon A010010
Michigan State AMichigan A010010
Michigan BCWRU D (DII)0101020
Michigan State C (UG)Michigan C (UG)010010
CWRU B (UG)Michigan D (DII)010010
Ohio State A (UG)Pitt A10101030