Round 12: Tossup 2

Note to players: The answer is a region that encompasses multiple countries. You may give the name of the general region or any of the individual countries. The French editor Jon-Perse and a poet from this region with the initials “AI” embrace LLMs to create literature in the 2025 novel We Computers. An author exiled to this region (10[1])wrote about the archeologist Zybin in the novels The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Knowledge. An author from this region wrote about a village of fishermen evicted from their land in The Tale of Aypi, a staple of Read Around the World challenges. A railman traverses this region (-5[1])to bury his friend while Soviet and US astronauts make contact (10[1])with intelligent (10[1])aliens (10[1])in the novel (10[1])The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years. The (10[1])deeds (10[1])of Semetei and Seitek follow those of the title culture (10[1])hero of this region in a 550,000-line epic (10[1])usually cited (-5[1])as among the longest poems in history. (-5[2])For 10 (10[1])points, oral (-5[1])poets from what region composed The Epic of Manas? (10[1])■END■ (10[10]0[7])

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