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In a short story set in this city, Philemon humiliates his adulterous wife Matilda by forcing her to treat the suit that her lover left behind like a real person. A baboon terrorizes this city in the story “Something Out There.” (15[1])Langston Hughes was a pen pal of many writers for this city’s (-5[1])Drum magazine, (-5[1])such as an actor nicknamed (15[1])“Bloke,” a journalist who composed a jazz opera about the boxer King Kong, and the novelist of Mating Birds. In a story set in this city, (-5[1])a golfer watches an old man collapse while carrying what he thought was his son’s (*) coffin. An author from a suburb of this city outlined “How [her country’s] Censorship Works” in an essay (10[1])whose title asks, (-5[1])“What Happened to” (10[1])one of her novels. That author, (10[1])who was part of this (10[1])city’s Sophiatown (10[1])Renaissance, wrote the short story “Six Feet of the Country.” For 10 points, name this city home to the author of Burger’s Daughter, (10[1])Nadine (10[1])Gordimer. ■END■ (10[5]0[2])

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