AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoLiterary Prizes: Philippe Jaenada won France’s Prix Goncourt for The Unknown Woman of the Quai de Javel, a true-crime novel revisiting a 1949 murder. The award came amid claims that another longlisted book was largely AI-written; its author denied the allegation. Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Hanna Sandborgh also won a Swedish international prize for Death and the Gardener. AI and Publishing: Cape Town author Coral Hart says AI helped her publish more than 370 novels in 20 months and earn about R17 million, sharpening debate over machine-written books. Publishing Partnerships: Cambridge, Johns Hopkins and Princeton university presses are teaming with Cashmere to launch Meridian. Book Access: Authors and advocates sued Alabama over restrictions on books featuring transgender characters, while a school district in Arkansas restored digital access to 50 LGBTQ+ titles.
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