It would seem that Helene Hegemann is a talented, creative young woman. One wonders what sort of fiction she could have created had she simply “stood on the shoulders of giants” and written an original work inspired by past literary giants. Instead, she decided to cut and paste pages of published literary works and pass off the result as her own work. Of course, she eventually got caught, as plagiarists almost always do in this digital age.
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Via The New York Times: Author 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism
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