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Prosecutors in Oran sought six years in prison for the Goncourt-winning novelist and his former partner in a privacy case brought by Saâda Arbane. Daoud denies the allegations.
In an Ipsos bva-CESI survey, more than nine in ten respondents backed a mandatory cover mention of AI use, and 69% said a book written with AI is not real literature.
The Renaudot jury picked six novels and four essays for its centenary year and cut Thélyson Orélien's novel, which faces AI and plagiarism accusations. Winners are named Nov. 3.
Her third novel, written entirely with the pronoun "on," wins the €15,000 prize on the same day it missed the Goncourt's final four.
Haenel, Jaenada, Mélois and Prudhomme are left for the Nov. 3 vote. Claudel says Pangram cleared the rest of the list, and that publishers, not juries, should certify human authorship.
The Montreal house says new information indicates AI was used in writing C'était ça ou mourir, despite repeated assurances. It will not reprint the novel or publish more of his books.
France's new Prix Pascal will award an unpublished French manuscript written with AI help. The homepage and the rules PDF disagree on the opening date and on length. The cash amount is not stated.
In a statement to AFP, the Quebec author apologised for plagiarism in the 2010s but said no sentence of C'était ça ou mourir was created by a machine.
The Caine Prize for African Writing says it is looking into claims that its 2026 winning story, "The Blue Fighter," may have used AI. No finding has been announced, and the author's agency says the work is his.
France's Académie Goncourt dropped C'était ça ou mourir from its first Prix Goncourt selection, citing converging AI analyses and newly reported plagiarism in earlier work. The author denies using AI.
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