Question

An author with this surname drew on the Boko Haram schoolgirl kidnappings in her 2019 final novel Girl, wrote about Cait and Baba in a trilogy beginning with The Country Girls, and had the first name Edna. In a novel by an author with this assumed surname, fourteen one-legged men attempt to prevent the hanging of a nameless man. A press specializing in experimental fiction is named after a novel by an author with this surname that features Saint Augustine and James Joyce. A man created by that author with this surname kills Mathers with a spade and uses a cash box containing omnium to write commentaries on the philosopher De Selby. For 10 points, the Irish modernist author of The Dalkey Archive and The Third Policeman shares what surname with a member (10[1])of the Thought Police (10[1])from 1984? ■END■ (10[3]0[3])

ANSWER: O’Brien [accept Edna O’Brien or Flann O’Brien; accept Brian O’Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen or Myles na Gopaleen]
<Southampton A, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Todd MaslykMichigan AOhio State B13210
Carter PisockyMichigan CCase Western A13610
Ryan JudgeCarnegie Mellon AKenyon13910
Kevin ZhengMichigan BCarnegie Mellon B13910
Ruchir KodihalliCase Western BOhio State A1390
Cole PolleyMichigan DMichigan State13910
Simon ZimmermanOhio State ACase Western B1390
Ethan NewmanMichigan StateMichigan D1390

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