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Hannah Kent

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Adelaide , Australia

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Fiction, Historical Fiction

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March 2013

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Hannah Kent's first novel, the international bestseller, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into 30 languages and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award, and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Hannah's second novel, The Good People was published in 2016 (ANZ) and 2017 (Feb, UK; Sept, North America). It was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. It has been translated into 10 languages.

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I'm Coming To Greece!

I’m very excited to announce that I will be coming to Greece for two events this month! Many thanks to Public Bookstore, my Greek Publisher Ikaros, and to the City of Athens for their kind invitation to be part of the celebrations. See you there!

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Hannah Kent’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 161,263 ratings · 19,670 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Burial Rites 4.04 avg rating — 123,518 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good People 3.82 avg rating — 23,068 ratings — published 2016 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devotion 3.87 avg rating — 12,768 ratings — published 2021 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Always Home, Always Homesick 4.42 avg rating — 1,834 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, April 2016 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jane Caro (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SIGHT LINES: 2014 UTS WRITERS’ ANTHOLOGY by UTS Writers Anthology, Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, July 2016 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hugh Jones (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hannah Kent 3 Books Collection Set 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, October 2011 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Ben Eltham (Contributor), Ron Rash (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, January 2017 by Rebecca Starford (Publishing Director), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Publishing Director), Hop Doc (Associate Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Beheaded with an ax on a snow-covered hillside in 1830, Agnes Magnúsdóttir was the last person executed in Iceland, as told in the new historical...

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My Brilliant Sister

by Amy Brown

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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

by T. Kingfisher

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Iris

by Fiona Kelly McGregor

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Hannah Kent has read Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent has read The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent has read Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent wants to read Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent wants to read Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent has read Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent has read Juice by Tim Winton	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hannah Kent has read James by Percival Everett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Hannah Kent (?)

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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Polls

July ~ BotM Nominations-(Historical Fiction) 2nd Poll

Top 6 Books... we had a tie!

The Invention of Wings

by Sue Monk Kidd

22 votes, 32.4%

The Postmistress

by Sarah Blake

12 votes, 17.6%

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

10 votes, 14.7%

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

9 votes, 13.2%

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

8 votes, 11.8%

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

7 votes, 10.3%

68 total votes

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Topics Mentioning This Author

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UK Book Club: Louise's Around the World in 80 Books	6	69	Feb 27, 2013 12:41PM
Aussie Readers: Sydney Writers' Festival - May 20th - 26th 2013	10	18	Apr 12, 2013 01:59AM
Aussie Readers: Win a copy of Burial Rites (ends 3/6)	15	80	Sep 02, 2013 09:22PM
Audiobooks: September 2013	352	206	Sep 30, 2013 01:26PM