Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1985. Her first novel, Burial Rites (Ikaros, 2014), became an international bestseller, was translated into 28 languages and won the following awards: ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2014, ABA Nielsen Bookdata Bookseller’s Choice Award 2014, 2014 Indie Awards Debut Fiction of the Year, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award People’s Choice Award 2014 and FAW Christina Stead Award 2013.

Her second novel, The Good People (Ikaros, 2017), has been translated into 10 languages and 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.

Her third novel, Worship (Ikaros, 2022), has just been published in English and has been longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Award for Fiction.

Hannah Kent is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Australian literary magazine Kill Your Darlings.