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United Agents clients nominated for FCBG Children's Book Award

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The FCBG Children’s Book Award shortlist has been announced, with several UA clients making the cut.

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02/27/2023 - 11:48
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UA Clients Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2023

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We are delighted to announce that several UA clients have been longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medals for writing and Illustration. The longlists were chosen from 125 nominations, which includes 12 children’s and youth librarians from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ (CILIP) Youth Libraries Group.

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02/16/2023 - 17:32
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Sheila Heti's PURE COLOUR is shortlisted for the 2023 Folio Prize

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Congratulations to Sheila Heti on being shortlisted for the 2023 Folio Prize in the Fiction category for her new novel, Pure Colour (Harvill Secker, 2022).

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02/07/2023 - 17:27
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Jamie Smart, Jim Field and Sir Quentin Blake make The Bookseller's Top 30 Illustrators of 2022!

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United Agents' illustrators scoop three spots in The Bookseller's Top 30 Illustrators of 2022! The chart shows the top 1,000 titles by volume from Nielsen BookScan’s Pre-School & Picture Books, Children’s & YA Fiction and Children’s Non-Fiction categories combined, with illustrators manually added by The Bookseller’s charts and data editor...

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02/03/2023 - 17:20
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