About Sonya
Sonya Hartnett's work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year (Of A Boy), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Thursday's Child), the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost's Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for both Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal (The Midnight Zoo). Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
In 2014, Hartnett published a new novel for adults, Golden Boys, and her third picture book, The Wild One.
True Stories: Close to Home featuring Sonya Hartnett
Lucid and beautiful, compassionate yet unflinching, enigmatic yet touching, sometimes tragic sometimes funny, this is a memorable novel by a writer at the height of her powers.
"Butterfly" WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Featured Books
Golden Boys
Sonya Hartnett's new novel for adults is an unflinching and utterly compelling work from one of Australia's finest writers.
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The Wild One
From acclaimed picture-book partnership Sonya Hartnett and Lucia Masciullo comes a celebration of the wonders of childhood, the beauty of nature and the wild that lives in us all.
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Writing History
- 1984
- Trouble all the way
- 1986
- Sparkle and Nightflower
- 1990
- The Glass House
- 1994
- Wilful Blue
- 1995
- Sleeping Dogs
- 1996
- Black Foxes
- 1996
- The Devil Latch
- 1997
- Princes
- 1999
- Stripes Of The Sidestep Wolf
- 2000
- Thursday's Child
- 2001
- Forest
- 2002
- Of A Boy
- 2004
- The Silver Donkey
- 2005
- Surrender
- 2006
- Landscape With Animals
- 2007
- The Ghost's Child
- 2008
- Sadie And Ratz
- 2009
- Butterfly
- 2010
- The Boy and the Toy
- 2010
- The Midnight Zoo
- 2011
- Come Down, Cat!
- 2012
- Children of the King
- 2013
- Life in Ten Houses
- 2014
- Golden Boys
- 2014
- The Wild One