New Plagiarism Allegations Target Thélyson Orélien in Canada
The Haitian-Canadian writer, already suspected of using AI to write his bestselling novel, now faces accusations that older press texts contained plagiarized passages.
Thélyson Orélien is facing a fresh set of accusations in Canada, this time over texts he published in the 2010s. According to the Quebec daily La Presse and the public broadcaster Radio-Canada, cited by Le Monde, the writer previously published a column and a short story that contain passages suspected of being plagiarized.
The allegations come on top of earlier suspicions that Orélien used artificial intelligence to write his bestselling novel, C'était ça ou mourir, as reported by Télérama. That novel had brought the Haitian-Canadian author wide attention before questions began to surface about how it was written.
Neither Le Monde nor Télérama detail the specific passages in question or name the works allegedly plagiarized. The reports indicate only that La Presse and Radio-Canada have raised the matter, and that it concerns press writing from years before the novel that made Orélien known.
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