AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoPublishing Deals: Hachette Children’s won a five-way auction for Lily Tibbitts’ middle-grade heist series, securing a three-book deal. Literary Prizes: Tayari Jones’ Kin won the Kirkus Prize for fiction, with a $50,000 award; Elizabeth Acevedo and Paula Colloff also won in young readers’ literature and nonfiction. Essex poet Holly Pester’s Cafés is among 10 collections shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Book Bans: US school book removals hit a record, with reports counting nearly 12,000 bans in a single year—including works by Margaret Atwood and Ryan North. Awards Season: The National Book Award finalists are out, with books addressing identity, justice and war among the selections. In Memoriam: Bestselling novelist and former politician Jeffrey Archer died aged 86, a day before his final novel, Adam & Eve, was due to arrive in stores.
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