The Latest Breaking News from John Hughes

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

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Material from books including ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ was discovered in novelist’s 2021 work ‘The Dogs’

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Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature

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Exclusive: Guardian Australia uncovers multiple near-identical phrases and scenes in John Hughes’ book The Dogs and Svetlana Alexievich’s nonfiction work The Unwomanly Face of War