The Australian author John Hughes has apologised for unintentionally plagiarising parts of a Nobel laureate’s work after a Guardian Australia investigation found multiple similarities and some identical instances in his new novel, The Dogs, which has been nominated for Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.
Nearly 60 similarities and identical sentences were found in a comparison of Hughes’ novel and the 2017 English translation of Svetlana Alexievich’s nonfiction book The Unwomanly Face of War.
