The Denise Shannon Literary Agency is a New York-based boutique agency with a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction authors. Particular areas of specialty include literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, biography, journalism, politics, social history, health and business. The agency’s clients have received numerous awards and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award finalist medal, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

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THE ANTIDOTE Wins Multiple French Awards

Karen Russell’s novel THE ANTIDOTE (French title: Quand Vient la Tempête) has won the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. In France, the book also won the Prix Transfuge for Best American Novel, was longlisted for the Prix Femina Étranger, and was Lire Magazine’s Best Foreign Novel of the Year 2026.

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