Thélyson Orélien dropped from Goncourt Prize consideration

Thélyson Orélien, the Quebec-based author of It Was Either That Or Die, has been dropped from consideration for the Goncourt Prize, France's award for French-language fiction. The removal was reported 14 October by Publishers Marketplace. Orélien has admitted plagiarism in 2012-2014 work and denies a Pangram analysis claiming 94% of the novel involved AI assistance.