Hannah Kent's Blog

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!

From Public:

Ακόμα και να μην ασχολείσαι με τη λογοτεχνία, δεν γίνεται να μην έχεις ακούσει για τη Hannah Kent. Πρώτα απ’ όλα, επειδή είναι μια από τις καλύτερες σύγχονες πεζογραφικές φωνές, που έχει ήδη καταφέρει να αφήσει...

Last month I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with The Garret Podcast live at the State Library of Victoria, alongside brilliant writers Clementine Ford (Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys) and Alice Pung (Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Laurinda).

Our conversation, recorded live, is now available on The Garret website, alongside a transcription.

For those of you interested in writers, the writing process, and Australia’s incredibly rich literary culture, I really recommen...

I recently had a great time chatting with the marvellous people behind the Deviant Women Podcast.

Have a listen for our conversation on historical research, the difficulties of representation, and the real-life women who have inspired my novels.

iTunes link here.

Exciting news! I'm really excited to have my workshop, Writing Historical Fiction, now up and available online with Kill Your Darlings!

I developed this course as a response to the questions I've been asked by those who want to write and research a work of creative fiction set in the past. While I loved teaching it in person, it meant that the course was limited to those based in Adelaide and Melbourne. Developing the workshop for an online platform means that people can now access it all over...

Did you know that Burial Rites has now been translated into 30 languages? I chatted with Macquarie Dictionary on their podcast 'Word for Word' about what it feels like to see my first novel appear in languages I can't understand, as well as my love of Icelandic.

The Good People is now out in the United States and Canada, published by Little, Brown! Beautiful hardbacks and ebooks now available at all wonderful independent booksellers, Powell's, Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Indigo, Walmart, Target and Books-A-Million.

I just got my own copy in the post and it looks beautiful. High fives (paws?) all round!

Many thanks to all the students, teachers and readers who recently sent through their questions about my first novel, Burial Rites.

In order to answer as many of your questions as possible, I have put together a little video (in which I am also upstaged by my cat). Enjoy! (And good luck in your exams!)

I'm delighted to announce that I am on the line-up for Clunes Booktown Festival (VIC), Dunedin Writers' Festival (NZ) and Sydney Writers' Festival this coming May.

For more information, please head over to my Events Calendar, where you'll be able to find out about dates, event times, addresses and ticket prices. 

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hello friends.

It is with great delight that I can let you all know that I will be touring the UK and Ireland this February to speak about my second novel, The Good People.

There will be five in-conversation events throughout the UK, and one in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please head over to my Events Calendar, where you'll be able to find out about dates, event times, addresses and ticket prices. 

My Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh readers, I can't wait to see you there!

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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Richard Fidler on ABC Radio's Conversations program about The Good Peopleand the fairy lore of Ireland.

Our chat is now up online at ABC Radio, and can also be downloaded here, or as a podcast here. Alternatively, you can listen to it here!

About this Episode:

In pre-famine, rural Ireland, people dwelled within layers of folk and fairy lore connected to every aspect of their lives.

At the milking of cows, in the nurturing of expectant mothers, and in...