Sonya Hartnett (*23. 2. 1968, Box Hill, Victoria)
spisovatelka, držitelka ceny Astrid Lindgren 2008
Sonya Harnett se narodila v Melbourne, Australie. Svou první knihu Trouble All the Way napsala už v 15 letech. Od té doby napsala víc jak 18 novel pro děti i mládež. Její knihy jsou hodnoceny hlavně pro vynalézavý a brilantní jazyk a byly přeloženy do mnoha jazyků včetně dánštiny, čínštiny, němčiny, iatlštiny, švédštiny. Byla oceněna v roce 2002 prestižní Guardian Children´s Literature Prize, v roce 2005 Children´s Book Council Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers a konečně v roce 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Bibliografie
Trouble All the Way Rigby (Australia), 1984
Sparkle and Nightflower Rigby (Australia), 1986
The Glass House Pan Macmillan (Australia), 1990
Wilful Blue Viking (Australia), 1994
Sleeping Dogs Viking (Australia), 1995
Black Foxes Viking (Australia), 1996
The Devil Latch Viking (Australia), 1996
Princes Viking (Australia), 1997
All My Dangerous Friends Viking (Australia), 1998
There Must Be Lions: Stories about Mental Illness (with Nick Earls and Heide Seaman) Ginniderra Press (Australia), 1998
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf Viking (Australia) (first published UK, Walker, 2004), 1999
Forest Viking (Australia), 2001
Thursday's Child Walker Books, 2002
What the Birds See (first published as "Of a Boy", Viking (Australia), 2000) Walker Books, 2003
The Silver Donkey Viking, 2004
Surrender Walker Books, 2005
The Ghost's Child Walker Books, 2008
Ceny a ocenění
1992 Writer's Fellowship (Literature Board of the Australia Council) Wilful Blue
1996 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Ena Noel Award Wilful Blue
1996 Miles Franklin Kathleen Mitchell Award (Australia) Sleeping Dogs
1996 New South Wales State Literary Award (shortlist) Sleeping Dogs
1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize (Australia) Sleeping Dogs
1999 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (shortlist) All My Dangerous Friends
2000 Aurealis Awards: Best Novel in Young Adult Division Thursday's Child
2000 Australian Publishers Association Award (shortlist) Thursday's Child
2000 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (shortlist) Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf
2001 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (shortlist) Thursday's Child
2001 New South Wales State Literary Award (shortlist) Thursday's Child
2002 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: Older Readers Forest
2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Thursday's Child
2002 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist) Thursday's Child
2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book) Of a Boy
2003 Miles Franklin Award (Australia) (shortlist) Of A Boy
2003 New South Wales State Literary Award (shortlist) Of A Boy
2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book) (shortlist) Surrender
2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book) (shortlist) The Ghost's Child
2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award