Question

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. (-5[1])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 decides to euthanize a dog at a shelter (10[1])owned by Bev Shaw. (10[1])This author created a middle-aged professor who is fired for sexually (10[1]-5[1])pressuring his student Melanie Isaacs. For 10 points, what South African author of Life & Times of Michael (10[1])K also wrote about David Lurie in Disgrace? (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: J. M. Coetzee [or John Maxwell Coetzee]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rachel Fanous (DII)Michigan APitt B (UG)56-5
Shourjo Ganguli (UG)Ohio State A (UG)Kenyon A (UG)10910
DannyPitt AMichigan B11310
Elias Kradel (DII)Kenyon B (DII)Michigan State C (UG)124-5
Rohan Navaneetha Raj (DII)Ohio State B (DII)CWRU C (UG)12410
Peter Zeng (DII)Ohio State C (DII)CWRU D (DII)14210
Sam Wang (UG)Pitt B (UG)Michigan A15010
Peter Ballas (DII)Michigan D (DII)Michigan State B (UG)1510
Ni Kundargi (DII)Michigan State B (UG)Michigan D (DII)1510

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2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y888%0%0%127.57
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y6100%0%17%119.33
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern2024-11-16Y989%0%33%124.25
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y771%0%29%127.60
2024 ACF Winter at UBC2024-11-16Y3100%0%0%120.33