Nizami

Amazingly I’m still struggling to link this guy with “Layla” despite having no illusions he exists. Rumi is just too much of a ‘go to’ answer, and I really should try to appreciate the differences between the two.

Questions

The Nizami Mausoleum can be found just outside which Azerbaijani city, with a clue being given by the two-word term he is also commonly known as?

GANJA (As in Nizami Ganjavi)

An inspiration for the Derek and the Dominoes song “Layla”, which narrative poem by Nizami has a title referring to two lovers, Layla and her lover Qays, the latter known by an epithet that suggests he is a bit on the ‘crazy’ side?

LAYLA AND MAJNUN

“Layla and Majnun” is one of five long narrative poems that make up which collection by Nizami? It is known by two names, one meaning ‘Quintet’ and another meaning ‘Five treasures’.

KHAMSA / PANJ GANJ

A ruler of the Sassanian empire, which princess was Khosrow II’s lover in the title of a work by Nizami that is included in his “Khamsa” collection of narrative poems?

SHIRIN

What does the word ‘Namêh’ mean in the Nizami narrative poem “Eskandar-Namêh”, that word also making up part of the title in Ferdowsi’s work “Shahnameh”?

BOOK

A masterpiece of erotic literature that is alternatively named for Sassanian emperor Bahram V, how many ‘beauties’ feature according to the title of Nizami’s “Haft Peykar”, part of his “Khamsa” collection?

SEVEN (Haft means 7 in Persian)

Part of Nizami’s “Khamsa” collection of five narrative poems, the “Mahkzan ol-Asrar”, roughly meaning ‘Treasury of Mysteries’, is what type of poem? Written in rhyming couplets, it is perhaps better recognised in the title of a famous work by 13th-century poet Rumi that is considered to be one of the great works of Persian literature.

MASNAVI / MATHNAWI

Non-European Literature

I was looking for my Marquez questions, but I guess they’re hiding somewhere else. So this turned into a “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” adaptation thread instead.

Questions

4 Apr 23

For which 1953 coming-of-age novel with a six-word title taken from a Derek Walcott work is Barbadian writer George Lamming best known?

IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN

With the novel telling a story across three generations in his native country, what nationality is “Leaves of the Banyan Tree” writer Albert Wendt?

SAMOAN

Deriving his pen name from Edgar Allan Poe, Japanese writer Edogawa Ranpo is most well known for which detective hero? The uninspiring title of “The Case of the Murder on D. Hill” hopefully hides better content.

(KOGORO) AKECHI

Adapted into a film starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, the novel “Green Mansions” was by British author William Henry Hudson. In which country was this writer born, as a result having an unusual dual nationality?

ARGENTINA

Gabríel García Marquez’ “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” was adapted into a 1987 film directed by which Italian who was a past winner of the Palme d’Or, with this film also being screened at the Cannes Film Festival?

FRANCESCO ROSI

The role of Santiago Nasar in Francesco Rosi’s 1987 adaptation of “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” was played by which son of a very famous actor, with this person also being a former boyfriend of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco?

ANTHONY DELON

Playing the part of Angela Vicario in the 1987 film “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” was which actress, who had her first English-speaking role as Princess Aura in “Flash Gordon” and insured her breasts for $350,000 in 1999?

ORNELLA MUTI

Nominated for two Golden Globes for parts played in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “An Ideal Husband”, which English actor was among the cast of 1987’s “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”?

RUPERT EVERETT

A winner of the Best Actor award at Cannes in 1983 for “The Death of Mario Ricci”, which Italian actor who featured in “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” is perhaps most well known outside of his country for featuring in “A Fistful of Dollars” and “A Few Dollars More”?

GIAN MARIA VOLONTÉ