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Writing is a ‘questionable business’, but what to make of John Hughes, one of the most prolific plagiarists in literary history?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In June of last year, the Guardian revealed that John Hughes’ Miles Franklin-longlisted novel The Dogs contained material lifted from The Unwomanly Face of War, a book by Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. When approached about this,…