Round 8: Tossup 4

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 (10[1])of The Dalkey Archive and The Third Policeman (10[1])shares what surname with a member of the Thought Police from 1984? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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