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Viola Hayden is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, one of the oldest and most well-known talent and literary agencies in the world, founded in 1899. Before that she worked as an editor at publishing houses such as Penguin Random House and Hachette. She looks after commercial fiction and narrative non-fiction (you can read …