quiz bowl (1 + 2 + 3 dot collegiate level) literature (author) questions

authors answerlines only bcoz thats the majority (hints include work info)

Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore)

Bengali poet

Gitanjali ⭐

• “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure”

National anthems of both Bangladesh and India

• Jana Gana Mala

• “The ruler of the minds of all people” and with four repetitions of the word “victory”

• “vessel thou emptiest again and again”

Translated by W. B. Yeats (pron. yates)

Nadine Gordimer

South African author

July’s People ⭐

• Smales family flees Jo’burg

• Maureen runs towards a helicopter

Titles constantly cited as the hint itself (more so than story content)

• Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

• The Conservationist

  • Jacobus finds a corpse on Mehring’s farm

• A Beneficiary

  • “Caches of old papers are like graves”

• Six Feet of the Country

• Burger’s Daughter

Gustave Flaubert

French author

Madame Bovary ⭐

• Emma is married to Charles, has affairs with Léon and Rodolphe

Salammbo

Julian Barnes novel titled/about “Flaubert’s Parrot”

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