LONDON: For “The Serpent in the Grove”, another beast slithered in — AI plagiarism. Literary world erupted after a Commonwealth prize-winning short story set in rural Trinidad was accused online of being machine-written, triggering a fierce debate over literary authenticity and whether judges can still tell humans from bots.
Trinidadian writer Jamir Nazir won Caribbean regional prize in Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 on May 14 for his work. Nazir, of East Indian heritage, won £2,500 for the story about a struggling cocoa farmer, examining endurance and marital silence through his young wife Sita, an orphaned village woman trapped in a loveless, suffocating marriage.
