Agatangeghos palimpsest c.900 CE.
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Plagiarism can feel like a personal deception, but there is something tragic about it too.
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Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
Australian author John Hughes (far right) has been accused of incorporating passages from works by (left to right) Leo Tolstoy, Svetlana Alexievich and F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Dogs.
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The freedoms of fiction do not absolve the author of the need to reference when lifting passages of work from others.