Round 5: Tossup 8

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 at the Calabash Literary Festival that states “I must avoid infection, / Or else I’ll be as dead as [the first writer’s] fiction.” The feud between these two writers began when one attacked the other’s racist, “self-disfiguring sneers” in a scathing 1987 review of The (*) Enigma of Arrival. These writers, whose public clash escalated with the 2008 poem “The Mongoose,” (10[1])were often contrasted as the only (10[1])two Caribbean authors to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. (10[1])For 10 points, what rivals respectively wrote Omeros (10[1])and A House for Mr Biswas? ■END■

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