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French professor investigated for awarding himself fake prize

awarding himself fake prize A French academic is under investigation for inventing a Nobel-style prize for philology in order that he could then go on to win it. Florent Montaclair, from Besançon in eastern

French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

fake and part of a complex international hoax worthy of a film script. Although the ceremony did take place, there was no International Society of Philology. The American university to which it was supposedly affiliated