Burial Rites (Kent)

Author Bio
• Birth—1985
• Where—Adelaide, Australia
• Education—Ph.D., Flinders University (in progress)
• Awards—Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award
• Currently—lives in Adelaide, Australia


Hannah Kent is a contemporary Australian writer, as well as the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. She is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award

Kent was included in the 2013 Waterstones 11 for her debut novel Burial Rites (2013), which revisits the true story of Agnes Magnúsdottir, the last person to be executed in Iceland. (From Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/16/2013.)