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Kent shortlisted for UK National Book Awards

Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in this year’s National Book Awards in the UK.

Kent, who is shortlisted for Burial Rites (Picador), is one of six authors in the running for the prize, which is presented to an author from outside of the UK with a new book that represents ‘an outstanding literary and commercial achievement, combined with a high profile and strong sales’. Also on the shortlist are: Eimear McBride (A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, Text), Jonas Jonasson (The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Fourth Estate), Jeff Kinney (The Long Haul: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Puffin) and Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely beside Ourselves, Serpent’s Tail).

The UK’s National Book Awards are ‘the only national literary prize that covers every genre of publishing’ and are presented in 11 categories. The shortlists and category winners are chosen by the National Book Awards Academy and the public is invited to vote for their favourite category winner to become the Specsavers Book of the Year.

The category winners will be announced in London on 26 November.

To see the books shortlisted in each of the categories, visit the National Book Awards website here.

 

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