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Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent is the author of Burial Rites (Picador 2013), and the co-founder and deputy editor of Kill Your Darlings

December 2016

  • A composite of the Australian writers Helen Garner, Maxine Beneba-Clarke and Martin McKenzie-Murray.

    2016 in review
    The best Australian books of 2016: writers choose their favourites

    Ten Australian authors, including Hannah Kent, Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Andy Griffiths and Niki Savva, pick their top reads from a splendid year of Australian writing

February 2014

  • Perth Writers' Festival

    Perth festival 2014: Saturday 22 February – as it happened

    We’re back for a final day at Perth festival, with interviews with Martin Amis and the legendary theatre director Robert Wilson. Plus we’ve got Hannah Kent’s books festival diary, pictures of circus performance Bianco and a chat with Pond
  • Hannah Kent at Perth Writers Festival.

    Australia culture blog
    Hannah Kent: Perth writers’ festival journal – Saturday

    Hannah Kent: Literary festivals encourage the discovery of new authors. They also draw your attention to the greats you have neglected
    • Australia culture blog
      Hannah Kent: Perth writers’ festival journal – Friday

    • Book corner
      Perth festival 2014: Thursday 20 February – as it happened

    • Hannah Kent: Perth writers' festival journal

September 2013

  • ozvaladon

    Australia culture blog
    Australian writers pick their favourite artworks from the homeland

    Thomas Keneally, Christos Tsiolkas, Carmen Callil and others choose the works that most strongly capture the spirit of their home country

June 2013

  • Iceland - Burial Rites

    Australia culture blog
    Burial Rites and the loneliness of the long-distance writer

    Hannah Kent

    Hannah Kent, the author of Burial Rites, on how she wrote the debut novel that everybody's talking about