Author, 17, Says It’s ‘mixing,’ Not Plagiarism

Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism

Outsized praise for a new novel quickly turned to a torrent of outrage as its young German author admitted to using full passages from another work.

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