NP (probably): A Cellarful of writers

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Nobel prizewinner 'used ghostwriters'

By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
09 October 2002

The Nobel prizewinner and Spain's grand old man of letters, Camilo José
Cela, who died in January, is alleged in a new book to have employed an
army of ghostwriters throughout his career. The claim risks demolishing
the literary giant's already tarnished reputation.

Cela's later years were overshadowed by allegations that he had
plagiarised a novel by a part-time school-teacher. The writer whom the
Nobel committee compared to Cervantes will be accused next week of
employed a veritable assembly-line of ghostwriters, secretaries and
collaborators who helped to produce his literary output from as early as
the 1950s.

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>From http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=340852


Let's not forget that there was a rumor circulating in the 70s
that "Pynchon" was in fact an assembly of writers (incl. William
Gass etc.); I don't think, however, that the Swedish Academy has
ever bought the rumor.

Whereas it is widely known that Borges was never given the Nobel
prize for this very reason. (Cf. pieces like "Borges and I", and
JLB's continuous insinuations that it wasn't he but, for example,
Bioy Casares who wrote the texts. A Stockholmian delegation was
sent to Buenos Aires to clear things up. Things did not clear up.)


Heikki