Packet 5: Tossup 13

Two answers required. One of these two writers rhymed “I feel to bawl” with a nickname punning on the other’s pessimism in the satirical poem “The Spoiler’s Return.” After one of these writers called the other “a man whose talent had been all but strangled by his colonial setting,” the other read a poem (15[1])at the Calabash Literary (15[1])Festival that states “I must avoid (15[1])infection, (15[1])/ Or else I’ll be as dead (15[1])as (15[1])[the first (15[1])writer’s] (15[3])fiction.” (15[1])The feud (15[1])between these two writers (15[1])began when one attacked the other’s (15[1])racist, (15[1])“self-disfiguring (15[1])sneers” in a scathing 1987 review of The (*) Enigma of Arrival. (10[1]-5[1])These writers, whose (-5[1])public (-5[1])clash escalated with the 2008 poem “The Mongoose,” (10[2])were often contrasted (10[2])as the only (10[1])two Caribbean authors to (-5[1])win the Nobel (10[1])Prize (10[1])in Literature. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[2])what (10[1])rivals respectively wrote Omeros (10[2])and A House (10[2])for (10[1])Mr Biswas? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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