quiz bowl (1 + 2 + 3 dot collegiate level) literary authors

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)

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”

• Had a stuffed animal of the bird

Sartre’s biography/monograph abt him titled “The Family Idiot”

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity’s Rainbow ⭐

• search for a German A-4 rocket is led by Tyrone Slothrop

Crying of Lot 49 ⭐

• Oedipa Maas as the protagonist

• Trystero Conspiracy

Under the Rose

Voltaire

French Enlightenment author

Candide ⭐

• Satirized Leibniz as Dr. Pangloss

Henry Fielding

English author

Tom Jones ⭐

• Blifil dies of apoplexy and Squire Allworthy adopts baby

• Molly Seagrim

Joseph Andrews

• Lady Booby exists

Shamella ️

Robert Browning

British author and poet

MY LAST DUCHESS!!!!!! ⭐️

• FRA PALDOLF

• “the gift of a 900 years-old name”

Porphyria's Lover (poem)

• “has not said a word!”

• girl with yellow hair

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian playwright

Death and the King's Horsemen ️

• the “Not-I” bird and the Praise-Singer

The Lion and the Jewel

• “Dance of the Lost Traveller” is performed by pretending to be a car

• Sidi chooses one over another in marriage

• armpit plucking

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian poet

Duino Elegies

• “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?”

Archaic Torso of Apollo

• “You must change your life”

• “every angel is terror”

George Bernard Shaw

British playwright

Pygmalion ⭐️

• abt a Flower Girl becoming a duchess

• “Walk? Not bloody likely!”

• Eliza Doolittle

Ann Whitefield and her “Life Force”

The Revolutionist’s Handbook

“Don Juan in Hell” sequence

Adolphus Cusins and the Salvation Army

Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore)

Bengali poet

Gitanjali

tagore

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

tagore

National anthems of both Bangladesh and India

• Jana Gana Mala

tagore

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

tagore

• “vessel thou emptiest again and again”

tagore

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

gordimer

South African author

July’s People ⭐

gordimer

• Smales family flees Jo’burg

• Maureen runs towards a helicopter

gordimer

• Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

gordimer

• The Conservationist

  • Jacobus finds a corpse on Mehring’s farm

gordimer

• A Beneficiary

  • “Caches of old papers are like graves”

gordimer

• Six Feet of the Country

gordimer

• Burger’s Daughter

flaubert

French author

Madame Bovary ⭐

flaubert

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

flaubert

Salammbo

flaubert

Julian Barnes novel titled/about “[authors]’s Parrot”

• Had a stuffed animal of the bird

flaubert

Sartre’s biography/monograph abt him titled “The Family Idiot”

pynchon

Gravity’s Rainbow ⭐

• search for a German A-4 rocket is led by Tyrone Slothrop

pynchon

Crying of Lot 49 ⭐

• Oedipa Maas as the protagonist

• Trystero Conspiracy

pynchon

Under the Rose

Crying of Lot 49 ⭐

• Oedipa Maas as the protagonist

• Trystero Conspiracy

fielding

English author

Tom Jones ⭐

fielding

• Blifil dies of apoplexy and Squire Allworthy adopts baby

“tom jones”

• Blifil dies of apoplexy and Squire Allworthy adopts baby

• Molly Seagrim

fielding

Joseph Andrews

• Lady Booby exists

fielding

Shamella ️

browning

British author and poet

MY LAST DUCHESS!!!!!! ⭐️

browning

• “the gift of a 900 years-old name”

browning

Porphyria's Lover (poem)

• “has not said a word!”

• girl with yellow hair

My Last Duchess

• FRA PALDOLF

• “the gift of a 900 years-old name”

soyinka

Nigerian playwright

Death and the King's Horsemen ⭐️

soyinka

• the “Not-I” bird and the Praise-Singer

soyinka

The Lion and the Jewel

• “Dance of the Lost Traveller” is performed by pretending to be a car 🚗

soyinka

• Sidi chooses one over another in marriage

soyinka

armpit plucking

fielding

• Molly Seagrim

rilke

Austrian poet

Duino Elegies

rilke

• “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?”

rilke

Archaic Torso of Apollo

rilke

• “You must change your life”

rilke

• “every angel is terror”

shaw

British playwright

Pygmalion ⭐️

shaw

• abt a Flower Girl becoming a duchess

shaw

• “Walk? Not bloody likely!”

shaw

• Eliza Doolittle

shaw

Ann Whitefield and her “Life Force”

shaw

The Revolutionist’s Handbook

shaw

“Don Juan in Hell” sequence

shaw

Adolphus Cusins and the Salvation Army