Author sued for making children's books of On the Road and Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Swedish writer Fredrik Colting is being taken to court for infringing copyright on books including Breakfast at Tiffany’s and 2001: A Space Odyssey

Swedish author Fredrik Colting is being sued for creating children’s versions of classic novels.

Colting, who was taken to court in 2010 for publishing an unofficial sequel to The Catcher in the Rye, is now the subject of a suit filed by Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and the estates of Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway and Arthur C Clarke.

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