Sonya Hartnett
Author
Sonya Hartnett is an internationally acclaimed Australian author who writes fiction for children, young adults and adults. Her first novel, Trouble All the Way, was written at the age of 13 and published when she was 15.
Sonya has written more than 16 books and her work has been published internationally with editions available in the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark.
Her most recent release is Butterfly, a novel about the bonds of family, growing up in suburbia and the vulnerability of early adolescence.
Sonya has won numerous Australian and international awards. In 2008, she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's richest prize for children's and young people's literature.
The prize is awarded to authors, illustrators, narrators and/or promoters of reading whose work reflects the spirit of Astrid Lindgren. It is the first time this award has gone to an Australian.
Sonya's 2004 book, The Silver Donkey was published to great critical acclaim. It won the 2005 Brisbane Courier Mail award for young readers and was CBC Book of the Year (Young readers) in 2005.
In 2000 and again in 2003, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Young Novelists of the Year.
Her adult novel, Of a Boy, won The Age Book of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Sleeping Dogs won a Children's Book Council of Australia Award (Older Readers), the 1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the 1996 Miles Franklin Inaugural Kathleen Mitchell Award.
