1. Kipling, (Half read the question and my answer for the rest was Fuzzy Wuzzy and Khartoum. Will take an L on that.)
2. Sitter for us subcontinentals :)
3.
4. N₹ruda
5.
6.
7. Octavio Paz, Humayun's Tomb?,
8.
9. Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact
10. Googled this and the answer is incredible! My problematic-fav director Emir Kusturica created an entire town named after Andric as the setting for a film. EK moved in there for a while, iirc.
11. Poet: Derek Walcott; Giant: Sir Vidia. Aside: There is an ornamental relative of star apple tree near Model School. Local name is സ്വർണ്ണപത്രി (swarnapatri - golden-leaved)
1. Kipling, (Half read the question and my answer for the rest was Fuzzy Wuzzy and Khartoum. Will take an L on that.)
2. Sitter for us subcontinentals :)
3.
4. N₹ruda
5.
6.
7. Octavio Paz, Humayun's Tomb?,
8.
9. Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact
10. Googled this and the answer is incredible! My problematic-fav director Emir Kusturica created an entire town named after Andric as the setting for a film. EK moved in there for a while, iirc.
11. Poet: Derek Walcott; Giant: Sir Vidia. Aside: There is an ornamental relative of star apple tree near Model School. Local name is സ്വർണ്ണപത്രി (swarnapatri - golden-leaved)
12. Pi
13.
14. Wole Soyinka
1) Correct on Kipling. The country is near where you are
2) Yes sitter for the subcontinent
3) Hint: Already in the question on the angel and the wind blowing over the south of France
4) Correct
5) Hint: Has a connection with a well-known work of the answer in Question 2
6) Hint: I'll say that George Seferis is also known as Giorgos Seferis
7) Correct on both counts
8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident
9) Good try but not on target. Hint is the word 'appeasement'
10) I see you have read the details. Lots going on with Kusturica and Ivo Andric over the past few years
11) Correct. I had to google up Derek Walcott and star apple tree. Thanks for that and the Trivandrum connection
12) Correct. Good one
13) Hint: 1998 was a big year for the poet's region (1998 has a Nobel Prize link as well)
14) Correct on the poet.
Hint for the missing word in the poem: Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam
12)
1. Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay,
2. Rabindranath Tagore, India and Bangladesh
3. Gabriela Mistral
4.
5.
6. Greece, Cyprus
7. Octavio Paz
8.
9.
10. Gavrilo Princip
11.
12. Pi
13. Seamus Heaney, Ireland
14.
Good teamwork again!
1) Correct - do give the name of the location a try (not in Mandalay)
2) Correct
3) Correct
4) Hint: Died soon after a military coup in his country
5) Hint: The poet who toyed with fascism has a connection with a well-known work of Tagore
6) Correct on both countries regarding Seferis
7) Correct on the poet
8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident
9) Hint is the word 'appeasement'
10) Correct. Well worked out!
11) Hint: The region is the Caribbean
12) Correct
13) Correct
14) Hint: The first Black African to win the Literature Nobel.
Hint for the missing word in the poem: Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam
11 must be Naipaul and Walcott then and 14 must be blackface.
Correct on both
Arre, this time it was 100% me. Husband not into poetry!
Got maybe two: Mandalay and Kipling, Tagore of course, Derek Walcott and VS Naipual.
Three on target
1) Correct - do give the name of the location a try (not in Mandalay)
2) Correct
3) Hint: Already in the question on the angel and the wind blowing over the south of France
4) Hint: Died soon after a military coup in his country
5) Hint: The poet who toyed with fascism has a connection with a well-known work of Tagore
6) Hint: I'll say that George Seferis is also known as Giorgos Seferis
7) Hint: Mexico
8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident
9) Hint is the word 'appeasement'
10) Hint: A pulled the trigger literally and metaphorically in 1914
11) Correct
12) Hint: Read the extract quoted carefully and you'll get the answer
13) Hint: 1998 was a big year for the poet's region (1998 has a Nobel Prize link as well)
14) Hint: The first Black African to win the Literature Nobel.
Hint for the missing word in the poem: Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam
Note:
Two No. 4's* / No. 7* missing
1.Rudyard Kipling's The Road to Mandalay. Yangon
2. Rabindranath Tagore. India & Bangladesh
3. Gabriela Mistral. Chile
4.* Pablo Neruda
4.* W. B. Yeats Ireland
5. Greece/ Cyprus?
6. Octavio Paz / Fathepur Sikri?Humayun's Tomb?/ Mexico City Massacre?
7 *
8.
9.
10.Gavrilo Princip
11.X: Derek Wallcott
Y: V. S. Naipaul
12 Climate Change?
13.
14.
14. Wole Soyinka?
Correct. For Part 2 the hint is Justin Trudeau and Ralph Northam
1) Correct on 2 out of 3 - looking for a specific location in Yangon
2) Correct
3) Correct
4) Correct
5) Correct
6) Correct on both counts
7) Mostly correct - do zero in on the monument in India
8) Hint: Book's publication was delayed by a motorcycle accident
9) Hint is the word 'appeasement'
10) Correct. Well worked out there!
11) Correct
12) Hint: Read the extract quoted carefully and you'll get the answer
13) Hint: 1998 was a big year for the poet's region (1998 has a Nobel Prize link as well)
The numbers are fixed now. The second 4 is 5, 5 is 6 and 6 is 7
Regarding the answers - giving a couple of days for others to take a crack