Hannah Kent’s first novel, the international bestseller, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into over 30 languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the ABA Nielsen Bookdata Bookseller’s Choice Award, the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award and the FAW Christina Stead Award. It is currently being adapted for film by Sony TriStar. Hannah’s second novel, The Good People (2016), was also translated into many languages and is currently being adapted for film by Aquarius Productions. Hannah’s third novel, Devotion, will be published in November 2021.

“Burial Rites is an accomplished gem, its prose as crisp and sparkling as its northern setting.” Geraldine Brooks