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摘要: AI scandal engulfs prestigious short story prize after multiple entrants accused of fabricating work
Jamir Nazir’s ‘The Serpent in the Grove’ is being investigated by the award’s committee after onli...
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AI scandal engulfs prestigious short story prize after multiple entrants accused of fabricating work
Jamir Nazir’s ‘The Serpent in the Grove’ is being investigated by the award’s committee after online sleuths find multiple ‘AI tells’
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piece of writing
that won the
Caribbean
category of the 2026
Commonwealth
Short Story Prize has come under scrutiny after readers alleged that it may have been generated using
artificial intelligence
tools.
The Serpent in the Grove
Trinidad and Tobago
writer Jamir Nazir was announced last week as the Caribbean regional winner of the annual prize, which recognises unpublished fiction from across the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, launched in 2012 by the Commonwealth Foundation, awards £2,500 to each regional winner and £5,000 to the overall winner, who will be announced on 30 June.
The prize accepts unpublished short fiction between 2,000 and 5,000 words and is open to writers from the Commonwealth’s 56 member states.
The foundation said this year’s competition received 7,806 entries from 51 member nations, with regional winners selected from a shortlist of 25 stories.
The Serpent in the Grove
was subsequently published on 12 May by
, which has hosted the prize-winning entries online since 2012.
Set in rural Trinidad, the story follows “a struggling farmer, a silenced young wife, and a grove that seems to remember what human beings try to bury”.
The judging panel, chaired by the novelist Louise Doughty, praised Nazir’s “precise yet richly evocative” language and described the story as “a beautifully told and assured piece of storytelling”.
The judges said the prose “pulses with a voice of restraint and quiet authority”.
According to a Commonwealth Foundation biography, Nazir is a “Trinidadian writer of East Indian heritage whose work explo
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