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The teenage desi chick lit writer

April 26, 2006

 

A 19-year-old Indian-American, Kaavya Viswanathan, who was born in Chennai and raised in Scotland and New Jersey, has been creating headlines in the US.

More trouble awaits Indian writer

First, it was for the whopping $ 500,000 two-book contract this young Harvard student earned from publishers Little, Brown.

Indian writer apologises for plagiarism

Next, it was for the fact that certain sections of Viswanathan's first novel -- How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild And Got a Life -- had been plagiarized from Megan McCafferty's novels Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings.

 

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