Hannah Kent

5 results

TKBKnewfic_20190330writer
From the Caribbean to the courthouse

“I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” The French mathematician Blaise Pascal knew that writing succinc(...)

British writer Jim Crace has won this year’s IMPAC award for his novel Harvest.
Jim Crace wins IMPAC award for outstanding Harvest

This year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been won by the revered British writer Jim Crace with his dramatic pastoral Harvest. He is (...)

Colum McCann: he is the only previous Impac winner on the shortlist, having won in 2011 for ‘Let the Great World Spin’. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Colum McCann is only Irish writer on Impac shortlist

A wide-ranging selection of novels including last year’s Man Booker winner are among the 10 contenders for the 2015 International Impac Dublin Literar(...)

The panel of judges for this year’s £30,000 Baileys Prize, and the six shortlisted titles: from left, Denise Mina, Sophie Raworth, Helen Fraser, Mary Beard and Caitlin Moran
First-time Irish authors rise to top of Baileys shortlist
  • Books
  • April 7, 2014, 19:15

First-time Irish authors Audrey Magee (The Undertaking) and Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-formed Thing) have been shortlisted for this year’s Ba(...)

Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent

The quality and variety of fiction streaming out of Australia are astonishing. Over the past month I’ve been captivated by three very different(...)