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Hannah Kent's first novel, the multi award winning international bestseller, <i>Burial Rites</i>, was translated into over 30 languages and is being adapted for film. Her second novel, <i>The Good People</i> was translated into 10 languages, nominated for numerous awards and is also being adapted for film. <i>Devotion</i>, her third novel, published in 2021, won Booktopia's Favourite Australian Book, and was shortlisted for multiple industry awards. Her original feature film, <i>Run Rabbit Run</i>, was directed by Daina Reid and starred Sarah Snook. Hannah is also the co-founder of <i>Kill Your Darlings</i>, and has written for <i>The New York Times, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, the Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Qantas Magazine </i>and<i> LitHub</i>. She lives and works on Peramangk and Kaurna country. A love letter from a writer to her muse, Iceland. The memoir of one of Australia's bestselling literary novelists, multi-award-winning author of <i>Burial Rites</i>, Hannah Kent. In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrived at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter. Hours passed as she waited for her contact to pick her up but no one arrived. Instead, she caught the last bus to Reykjavík, where a man in a dressing gown was waiting for her at the depot. That night she slept off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, completely unaware that, years later, she would return to the same building to write <i>Burial Rites</i>, a retelling of Iceland's last execution, and an offering to the country that would utterly change her life's trajectory. Written with rich detail and humorous and poignant anecdote<i>, Always Home, Always Homesick</i> is a love letter from a writer to her muse. At once a memoir of her experiences of living in Iceland, and a wider consideration of the centrality of literature to the nation's culture and identity, it explores how Iceland has shaped the person she is today, alongside how this tiny nation continues to be a powerhouse of creative expression. Moving back and forth across two decades, between her year living in the small, northern fishing village of Sauðárkrókur, to researching and writing <i>Burial Rites</i>, to delivering the opening night address of the 2023 Reykjavík International Literary Festival, <i>Always Home</i> contemplates the global influence of the sagas, the importance of storytelling amongst impoverished 18th and 19th century Icelanders, and Iceland's rich folk history and supernatural traditions.