Posted on 07/11/02
Controversy envelops Booker-winning novel
Canadian author Yann Martel, the recent winner of the Booker prize, is embroiled in a literary controversy over his novel Life of Pi. A Brazilian writer, Moacyr Scliar, says the Canadian writer may have plagiarized his 1981 novella Max and the Cats,a Holocaust allegory about a Jewish boy adrift off the coast of Brazil in a lifeboat with a panther.
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