PEN/Faulkner Award Longlist 2024
The longlist of books for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award has been annonunced! We are glad to inform you that two of our authors are among the finalists: Alice McDermott and Colin Winnette.
According to the jury: “With an astonishingly varied range of protagonists — the ghosts of New York City, U.S. military wives in wartime Saigon, Staten Island Latinas, a virtual reality designer, and a mountain lion living under the Hollywood sign — this year’s finalists offer definitive proof that fiction, to invoke Walt Whitman, contains multitudes ”. 
We hereby present to you the titles represented by our agency. The Italian rights are available to date.
ABSOLUTION, Alice McDermott (October 2023, The Gernert Company)
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Vogue and declared a Bestseller by the New York Times, this novel puts the lives of American women and wives - who have always been considered minor characters in Vietnam War literature - centre stage.
The author also won the National Book Award in 1998.
USERS, Colin Winnette (February 2023, O’Connor Literary Agency)
The novel investigates the uncontrolled developments of technological ambition with humour and dismay. Miles, a creative director of a medium-sized virtual reality company, has come up with a product called The Ghost Lover, soon becoming the target of the users' outrage...
The novel received numerous praises: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; Nylon, A Must-Read Book of the Month; The New Yorker, A Best Book We Read This Week; Elle, A Most Anticipated Title of the Year; The Millions, A Most Anticipated Read.
The winner will be honoured in a celebration to be held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., on May 2, and will receive an endowment of $15,000.
