Loaded Questions 5/25/23 - Literature
What's the difference between a novella and a short story?
Happy Thursday everyone! To catch you up on my May so far, I came down with my second case of COVID (I believe I’ve recovered well, and can say that Paxlovid really works), and then was followed up with a couple of the toughest weeks I’ve had in my professional life, but I think things have settled well, and I’m back on my nonsense. Also, happy LL97 everyone! Hope your season has started out well (I’ve so far gone 18-for-18, so hoping to keep the question streak up). It’s also WQC just around the corner, and I’ve registered to take it in person this year in Atlanta! Want to try to do some studying, and I want to share that studying, so I’ll be posting a number of study things in the next week and a half. Today’s post is a 2022 literature review, all of which were critically acclaimed or much discussed books. Please enjoy, thank you to those who checked up on me, and I’m happy to get back to writing these hard questions.
1. The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” is a novel by what Sri Lankan author, whose debut 2010 novel “Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew” was inspired by Sri Lanka’s love of cricket?
2. What famous Middle Eastern family is the subject of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner by Joshua Cohen, subtitled “An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family”?
3. 2006’s “His Majesty’s Dragon”, 2015’s “Uprooted”, and 2018’s “Spinning Silver” are all Hugo Award nominated novels by what science fiction author who published the third in her The Scholomance trilogy “The Golden Enclaves” in 2022.
4. An urn appears on the cover of what 2022 celebrity memoir by Jeanette McCurdy which was a New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller?
5. Similar in name to the third part of a famous literary trilogy, what 2021 novel by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor follows teenagers in the namesake gated community of Veracruz?
6. Olive Llewellyn is a novelist living on the Moon in what 2022 novel by Emily St. John Mandel?
7. A follow-up to 2016’s “Night Sky with Exit Wounds”, what Vietnamese-American poet released the 2022 collection “Time is a Mother”?
8. While the book was published by Ammaar Reshi, who controversially was the author of the 2022 children’s book “Alice and Sparkle”?
9. Ma returns to a site where she witness violence after the partition of India and Pakistan in what 2018 Hindi language novel by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell to become the first novel from an Indian language to win the 2022 International Book Prize?
10. Also a work by Kierkegaard, what 2022 novel by Turkish American author Elif Batuman is about linguistics student Selin Karadağ at Harvard in the 90s?
11. Adapted into a 2021 film by director Audrey Diwan, what 2000 autobiographical novel by 2022 Nobel winner Annie Ernaux talks about her pregnancy in detail?
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1. The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” is a novel by what Sri Lankan author, whose debut 2010 novel “Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew” was inspired by Sri Lanka’s love of cricket?
Shehan Karunatilaka
2. What famous Middle Eastern family is the subject of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner by Joshua Cohen, subtitled “An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family”?
The Netanyahus
3. 2006’s “His Majesty’s Dragon”, 2015’s “Uprooted”, and 2018’s “Spinning Silver” are all Hugo Award nominated novels by what science fiction author who published the third in her The Scholomance trilogy “The Golden Enclaves” in 2022.
Naomi Novik
4. An urn appears on the cover of what 2022 celebrity memoir by Jeanette McCurdy which was a New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller?
I’m Glad My Mom Died
5. Similar in name to the third part of a famous literary trilogy, what 2021 novel by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor follows teenagers in the namesake gated community of Veracruz?
Paradais
6. Olive Llewellyn is a novelist living on the Moon in what 2022 novel by Emily St. John Mandel?
Sea of Tranquility
7. A follow-up to 2016’s “Night Sky with Exit Wounds”, what Vietnamese-American poet released the 2022 collection “Time is a Mother”?
Ocean Vuong
8. While the book was published by Ammaar Reshi, who controversially was the author of the 2022 children’s book “Alice and Sparkle”?
ChatGPT (with illustrations by AI program Midjourney)
9. Ma returns to a site where she witness violence after the partition of India and Pakistan in what 2018 Hindi language novel by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell to become the first novel from an Indian language to win the 2022 International Book Prize?
Tomb of Sand
10. Also a work by Kierkegaard, what 2022 novel by Turkish American author Elif Batuman is about linguistics student Selin Karadağ at Harvard in the 90s?
Either/Or
11. Adapted into a 2021 film by director Audrey Diwan, what 2000 autobiographical novel by 2022 Nobel winner Annie Ernaux talks about her pregnancy in detail?
Happening