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Harriet Moore is to join Aitken Alexander Associates, having worked at David Higham Associates for more than a decade.
Moore will join the agency on Monday 17th June, Her authors include three out of the selected 20 Granta Best of Young British novelists 2023: the 2023 Giller Prize-winner and Booker Prize-shortlisted Sarah Bernstein; Booker Prize and Women’s Prize for Fiction-longlisted Sophie Mackintosh; and new voice in fiction, Jennifer Atkins.
Her authors also include the Sunday Times bestseller and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award shortlistee Naoise Dolan; the winner of the 2023 T S Eliot Prize and 2023 Forward Prize Jason Allen-Paisant; 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient and Gordon Burn Prize-winner Kathryn Scanlan; Lottie Hazell, author of the must-read literary debut for 2024, Piglet; and Rebecca May Johnson, author of the critically acclaimed Small Fires, which was shortlisted for Foyles Non-fiction Book of the Year in 2022.
Clare Alexander, chair of Aitken Alexander, said: "Harriet will expand our strategic focus on representing exceptional writers in all formats and markets. Everyone at Aitken Alexander enormously looks forward to working with her and with her terrific clients."
Moore added: "I am grateful for my formative decade at David Higham Associates— for the knowledge, mentorship, and wonderful colleagues—and I am looking forward to the new affinities and collaborations that lie ahead for me and my authors at Aitken Alexander, for whom I have great respect. It’s an invigorating time to be joining them."