Hamnet (novel)
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Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age eleven in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief. In Canada, the novel was published under the title Hamnet & Judith.[1]
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Author | Maggie O'Farrell |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Published | 31 March 2020 |
Publisher | Tinder Press |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 384 |
Awards | Women's Prize (2020), National Book Critics (2020) |
ISBN | 978-1472223791 (1st ed. UK Hardcover) |
OCLC | 1104658967 |
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LC Class | PR6065.F36 H35 2020 |
In 2020, the book won the Women's Prize for Fiction[2] and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; that December, it was also chosen as Waterstones' Book Of The Year.[3] The following year, it was named "Novel of the Year" at the Dalkey Literary Awards,[4] was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize,[5] and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.[6] It was described in Literary Review as "a rich story by any stretch of the imagination, and O'Farrell's stretches much, much further than most of ours."[7]