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La Plante plagiarism row
Crime-writer Lynda La Plante is facing criticism from Holocaust survivors over a novel she published in 1993 and its alleged similarities in part to a memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
According to the Independent, La Plante, best known for creating the ITV series "Prime Suspect", strongly denies copying from the 1947 book Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel. An Australian reader noticed that parts of the survivor's memoir were very similar to La Plante's 1993 novel Entwined. Its main characters are Auschwitz survivors.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that lawyers for La Plante had said a research assistant she no longer uses may have used the passages on her behalf.
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