Burial Rites
By Hannah Kent
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The multi-award winning debut bestseller from the author of The Good People, with new novel Devotion out now. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men.Agnes is sent to wait on the farm of District Officer
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Burial Rites
9781743287910
Picador Australia
1 May 2013
EPUB
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352
1.66 MB
English

Awards

Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award People's Choice Award 2014 2014
Winner of Indie Awards 2014
Winner of SMH Best Young Australian Novelist 2014
Shortlisted for NiB Waverley Award for Literature 2013
Shortlisted for The Stella Prize 2014
Shortlisted for Voss Literary Award 2014
Winner of ABA Nielsen Bookdata Booksellers' Choice Award 2014
Winner of ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2014
Shortlisted for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014
Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2014
Winner of FAW Christina Stead Award 2014
Shortlisted for National Book Awards 2014
Shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2013
Winner of Davitt Awards Debut Fiction 2014
Winner of ABIA/Booktopia People's Choice Award 2014
Winner of Davitt Awards Reader's Choice 2014
Shortlisted for ALS Gold Medal 2014

Author Biography

Hannah Kent's first novel, the multi award winning international bestseller, Burial Rites, was translated into over 30 languages and is being adapted for film. Her second novel, The Good People was translated into 10 languages, nominated for numerous awards and is also being adapted for film. Devotion, her third novel, published in 2021, won Booktopia's Favourite Australian Book, and was shortlisted for multiple industry awards. Her original feature film, Run Rabbit Run, was directed by Daina Reid and starred Sarah Snook. Hannah is also the co-founder of Kill Your Darlings, and has written for The New York Times, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Qantas Magazine and LitHub. She lives and works on Peramangk and Kaurna country.

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