Writing is a 'questionable business', but what to make of John Hughes, one of the most prolific plagiarists in literary history?
- Written by: Dan Dixon, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
Agatangeghos palimpsest c.900 CEWikimedia CommonsIn 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, Hughes apologised for the...