10 Australian literary scandals

Given the latest grocery fight between Nagi Maehashi and Brooke Bellamy for allegations of plagiarism, Arshub This piece – originally published three years ago on June 28, 2022 – reminded of how often scandals are in the literary world. Do you remember the saga with John Hughes?

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The accusations with several plagiarisms were initially lifted by The Guardian Australia John Hughes and his latest novel plagued that, The dogsThe book is withdrawn from the Longlist of 2022 miles Franklin Awards and has left the literary community mechanism.

But Hughes' negligence to owe the words of other writers (or his deliberate intertextual reference) is only the latest many scandals in the publishing world.

If you may have thought that the world of letters was occupied. Here are 10 famous cases of lies, jokes, plagiarism, fraud and other ease that have shaken literary establishment over the years.

1. Forbidden love

Norma Khouri's book Forbidden love (2003) is said to be based on the true history of an honorary murder in Jordan. The memoirs became a bestseller and was published in no less than 15 countries, but a year after his publication it turned out that the entire history was invented. The Sydney Morning Herald The journalist Malcolm Knox was at the top of the examination of the deception of Khouris. The paper found in 2004: “Khouri misleaded the world both on the side and personally.”

2. The poems by Andrew Slattery

The poet Andrew Slattery had been won or praised in a number of high profile awards, only so that it had later discovered that many lines were cut in his poems by other writers, including Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. The Newcastle poet won the Rosemary Dobson Prize for a poem with lines such as “injured like a tweezer” in 2010, “they keep old streets open by driving on the new driving” and “Death will quickly come like a cat that jumps on the bed”. However, Susan Wyndham emphasized: “The lines were written by the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and the American poet Charles Bukowski”.

3. Another plagarization poet

The poet Graham Nunn was also discredited after literary Slchen had found several cases of borrowed work in his writings. Between 2004 and 2007, Nunn was director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His poem 'Fortune' from his anthology from 2010 Ocean -speakingwas found almost identically with the “stone of the philosopher” by a Canadian poet, Don McKay. At the time when Nunn published on his blog that he was often inspired by music and other books and that such inspirations were sometimes “creative in the formation of a new work”.

It should be noted that sampling, paste and centroses (a work that were often used from verses or passages from other authors) are only valid in poetry if the original source is confirmed.

4. Mutante message down at

In 1990, Mutated message down at Marlo Morgan allegedly released the journey of a white American middle -aged American and her interactions with a group of indigenous peoples in Australia. Morgan explained that the book was inspired by the actual experience; However, studies in central and Western Australia could not uncover any evidence of their presence in the region or the existence of the tribe in question.

Dumbbartung, a company that is set up to promote the arts of Aboriginal in Western Australia and abroad, published a report on the examination of the claims in Mutated message down atThe result was “a uniform voice of the opposition to the exploitation of indigenous cultures all over the world”.

5. My own sweet time

In a similar case of cultural embezzlement, Wanda Koolmatries Roman My own sweet time was published in 1994 by a publisher that specializes in the work of the indigenous authors, but Koolmatry never existed. It is believed that the book is the work together or individually by two white Australian men: John Bayley and Leon Carmen. My own sweet time won the Nita May Dobbie Award for Women writers before it was unveiled as a joke in March 1997.

6. The adventure of Louis de Rougement

The adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899), as the author himself was told, was an elaborate patchwork of decorations and direct lies. De Rougemont, a Swiss discoverer who organized many adventures in Australia in Australia, made colorful and imaginative stories, including for 30 years with indigenous Australians in the outback. He claimed that the tribe he had lived had worshiped him as God.

In 1899 he was a music hall in South Africa and expected “the biggest liar on earth”. On a similar Australia tour in 1901, he was booed by the stage.

7. Jack Rivers and I

Paul Radleys Jack Rivers and me won the opening time Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished manuscripts of writers at the age of 35 in 1981. Radley was elected to the young Australian of the Year for his contribution to Australian literature from January 1982. In 1996 it became known that the novel and two subsequent books were actually written by Paul's uncle Jack Radley. Jack Rivers and me Would not be justified for the Australian/Bird price was submitted by Radley Senior in view of his age. Jack Radley later explained that he “probably rebelled against age discrimination” and later asked “Why do you discriminate against a first novel whether you are 80 or 18?” After the controversy was revealed, 'S, Archie Welle's The dog's day -Right the second-placed Wurde declared the first bird winner for Vogel, and Paul Radley was disqualified.

8. You are a strange mob

John O'grady invented Nino Culotta, the main actor, to write You are a strange mob (1957) about the Australian immigration after the war. It was not really written by an Italian migrant, but by a second generation Irish Australian. The extremely successful book was later transformed into an equally successful film. At the time of O'grady's death in 1981 Sale of You are a strange mob the million marks approached.

9. Helen who?

Helen Demidenkos Miles Franklin Award winner book, The hand that the paper has signed (1994) allegedly based on family experiences of the Ukrainian famine in the 1930s, which led to working with Nazis. Demido claimed to be Ukrainian (even with embroidered blouses, part of the Ukrainian national costume and the implementation of Ukrainian dances), but her real name was Helen Darville and she was the daughter of British migrants. The author is now known as Helen Dale and her book was later published under the Dale nomenclature.

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10. Invention Ernst Malley

Probably the most famous Australian literary joke is the Ernen -Malley matter. To show how easy it was to conjure up nonsensical verses in the way of modernist poetry that they despised, James Mcauley and Harold Stewart came with a fictional poet named Ern Malley and created his work in 1943. The black swan of violation and numerous books, most recently Stephen Orr's Sincerely, Ethel Malley.