Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. She is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Burial Rites is her first novel.
Hannah Kent’s astonishing novel Burial Rites has been announced as the Waterstones 11 title for September 2013, a promotion is designed to uncover and champion the very best debut fiction.