Question
The Stella Prize was established in 2013 as a counterpart to a prize named for this author over concerns that it underrepresented female authors. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who wrote about the Delacy family in All That Swagger. Sybylla Mervyn turns down marriage proposals from Harold Beecham in another novel by this author.
ANSWER: Miles Franklin [or Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin] (The novel is My Brilliant Career.)
[10m] The 1989 Miles Franklin Literary Award was won by this novel. One of this novel’s title characters drowns after delivering a glass church to Reverend Hassett in New South Wales as part of a bet.
ANSWER: Oscar and Lucinda (by Peter Carey)
[10e] While Thomas Keneally won back-to-back Miles Franklin Awards, neither were for his novel titled for this man’s “Ark.” That novel tells the story of how this real-life man saved over 1,000 Polish Jews during the Holocaust.
ANSWER: Oskar Schindler [accept Schindler’s Ark or Schindler’s List]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 57% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| UBC A | UW A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |