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. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the Irish modernist (10[1])author of The Dalkey Archive and The Third Policeman (10[1])shares what surname with a (10[1])member of the Thought Police from 1984? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: O’Brien [accept Edna O’Brien or Flann O’Brien; accept Brian O’Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen or Myles na Gopaleen]
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Neal JoshiWashU BIllinois A11110
Justin HawkinsIndiana AChicago B11410
Braden BoothMissouriMissoui S&T11710
Alvin GuoChicago DWashU A12610
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIllinois C13110
Megan HaChicago CIndiana B13910

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