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Publisher removes Thélyson Orélien from Goncourt longlist
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- Éditions du Boréal removed Canadian author Thélyson Orélien from the French Goncourt prize longlist.
- An anonymous X account claimed AI-detector Pangram flagged his novel as 100 % AI-generated.
- CBC News replicated the Pangram test on other excerpts and obtained a 100 % AI result.
- Éditions du Boréal suspended his press tour and began reviewing plagiarism claims.
- La Presse announced it will not commission his columns after the Salon du livre dropped Orélien.