Thélyson Orélien, a celebrated novelist, used artificial intelligence while writing a breakout book, his publisher says.

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Breaking a weekslong silence, Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-Canadian writer, still rejected accusations about his new novel, ‘It Was Either That or Die.’

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