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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Laufey will make her literary debut with a children’s book coming in 2026, the Associated Press reports.

Paramount Television Studios is developing the series adaptation, which will star Biel ( The Rules of Attraction, Total Recall) as the gender-swapped protagonist, Erica Ambler. Jason Horwitch ( ...

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Katie Yee has won the 2025 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, given annually to an outstanding debut book, for her novel, Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar.

Disney has acquired the rights to Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures series of children’s fantasy novels, the entertainment company announced in a news release.

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, known for his disturbing, postmodern novels, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lucas Schaefer, Scott Anderson, and Thao Lam are the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes, given annually to works of exceptional merit in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ ...