[3] Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel Grand Days because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian.
Writer David Marr, who presented the award to her, said that revelations about her true background did not "alter a single thing about the quality of the story, it knocks completely out of the water her answers to critics who said it was not historically accurate, that she knows because of direct family experience, which appears to be complete bull----.
"[59] Even before the hoax was revealed, Darville’s book was considered anti-Semitic and justified the genocide of Jewish people.
The Guardian newspaper also found similarities between incidents described in the books, including the central scene from which The Dogs takes its title.
[63] Further investigation found other examples of plagiarism in the novel and that Hughes copied sections of classic texts including The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina without acknowledging the original source.