Seventeen year old Helene Hegemann is the author of the critically acclaimed book “Axolotl Roadkill," which tells the story of a teenage girl exploring the drug and club scene of Berlin after losing her mother.
The novel has been discovered to contain text from several unattributed sources. Ms. Hegemann's explanation is that her work is a "mix," inspired by a variety of writers. Apparently, "mixing" is the new euphemism for plagiarism.
Ms. Hegemann’s novel has been selected as a finalist for the $20,000 fiction prize of the Leipzig Book Fair.
Read more at The New York Times
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