Nobel-Winning Author Accused of Plagiarism

Seems that once the plagiarism bus starts rolling there’s no stopping it. Spanish Nobel prize-winning writer Camilo José Cela has been accused of plagiarizing the work of a lesser known author for one of his best-selling books. The man died in 2002 under the shadow of this accusation, but now a literary expert has been called in to decide once and for all if Cela’s a thief.

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Maybe he did, and maybe he didn’t, but I think they’re stretching it a bit with some of the comparisons…Both have a narrator and two other female characters? Well come on, so do a hundred thousand other books. And it’s really not so far fetched that he should set his novel in Galicia…he was born there!

There is no thief like a bad book
--Italian Proverb