Creative writing

After the Listener received a letter from Penguin Books withdrawing permission to quote from Witi Ihimaera's novel The Trowenna Sea, our reviewer Jolisa Gracewood found more examples of "borrowings".

By Joanne Black In Uncategorized

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12th December, 2009

Australian historian Peter Stanley has not read The Trowenna Sea but he already knows a few lines in it - because he wrote them. Stanley, who is head of the Centre for Historical Research at Canberra's National Museum of Australia, is one of many authors whose published work appears to have been reused by author Witi Ihimaera in The Trowenna Sea without sufficient acknowledgment. Penguin offered to refund retailers for their copies of the novel last month after Jolisa Gracewood, who was engaged by the Listener to review the book, uncovered 16 instances in the novel ...

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