{"id":927591,"date":"2026-10-14T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927591\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:50:12","slug":"zimbabwean-author-simbarashe-kundizeza-denies-using-ai-to-write-caine-prize-winning-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927591\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write Caine Prize-winning story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">It follows rows over other literary prizes this year, in particular the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, which was won by Trinidadian writer Jamir Nazir despite allegations that he had used AI, and the withdrawal of Canadian-Haitian author Th\u00e9lyson Or\u00e9lien from France&#8217;s top literary award, the Goncourt, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ck7v4y45893go\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over allegations he used AI for his first novel, which he denies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It follows rows over other literary prizes this year, in particular the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, which was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-927591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}