Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett's work has been published around the world. She is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels, including Thursday's Child, winner of the 2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and Forest, winner of the 2002 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year: Older Readers. In 2003, her adult novel, Of a Boy, won The Age Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.
In 2000 and again in 2003, Sonya Hartnett has been named one of The Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelists of the Year.
In 2004, The Silver Donkey was published to great critical acclaim. It has won the 2005 Brisbane Courier Mail award for young readers and was CBC Book of the Year (Young readers) in 2005.
Surrender was published in 2005. It was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award and the Aurealis Award - Fantasy Division in 2005.
In 2008 Sonya was the recipient of The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. 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.
In 2010 Sonya published her debut picture book, The Boy and the Toy which was followed by Come Down, Cat! in 2011.
2010 also saw the publication of The Midnight Zoo, which won the CBC Book of the Year (Older Readers) in 2011 and was nominated for the CILP Carnegie Medal (UK) for Best Children's Book.
Her most recent novel is The Children of the King.
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Awards
ABPA Book Design Awards
Short-listed in 2006 for
Surrender (Literary Fiction)
American Library Assocation
APA Book Design Awards
Short-listed in 2011 for
Midnight Zoo (Best Design Children's Fict)
Short-listed in 2011 for
Midnight Zoo (Best Designed Children's Cover)
Winner in 2011 for
Midnight Zoo (Best Design Children's Fict)
Aurealis Award
Short-listed in 2011 for
Midnight Zoo (Young Adult Division)
Short-listed in 2005 for
Surrender (Fantasy Division)
Australian Book Industry Awards
Short-listed in 2010 for
Ghost's Child (Older Children (8-14 years))
Australian Publishers Association
Bolinda Audio Award
Short-listed in 2007 for
Surrender (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
CBC Book of the Year
Honour in 1996 for
Sleeping Dogs (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
CILIP Carnegie Medal (UK)
Commonwealth Writers Prize (UK)
Short-listed in 2006 for
Surrender (Best Book)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Regional)
Courier Mail Book of the Year
Winner in 2005 for
Silver Donkey (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Dublin Literary Award
Nominated in 2007 for
Surrender (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Nominated in 2004 for
Of A Boy (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
FAW Award
Highly commended in 2009 for
Butterfly (Christina Stead Award)
Internat'l Board on bks for young people
Winner in 1996 for
Wilful Blue (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Kathleen Mitchell Award
Winner in 1996 for
Sleeping Dogs (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Kids Own Aust Literature Award (KOALA)
Melbourne Prize for Literature
Short-listed in 2006 for
Surrender (Best Writing Award)
Michael L. Printz Award (US)
Honour in 2007 for
Surrender (Young Adult Division)
New South Wales State Literary Award
Short-listed in 2005 for
Silver Donkey (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Short-listed in 2003 for
Of A Boy (Fiction)
Short-listed in 1996 for
Sleeping Dogs (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Short-listed in 2003 for
Of A Boy (Fiction)
Orange Prize for Fiction (UK)
Long-listed in 2003 for
Of A Boy (Fiction)
Prime Minister's Literary Award
Highly commended in 2010 for
Butterfly (Fiction)
Qld Premier's Literary Award
Short-listed in 2005 for
Surrender (Young Adult Division)
Speech Pathology Australia
The Age Book of the Year
Short-listed in 2005 for
Surrender (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Winner in 2003 for
Of A Boy (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
Long-listed in 2010 for
Butterfly (Best Book)
Short-listed in 2010 for
Butterfly (Best Book)
Short-listed in 2003 for
Of A Boy (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Winner in 1996 for
Sleeping Dogs (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
Short-listed in 2003 for
Of A Boy (Fiction)
Winner in 1996 for
Sleeping Dogs (Prize for Writing for Young Adults)
W.A. Premier's Book Award
Short-listed in 2011 for
Midnight Zoo (Young Adult Book Award)
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