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{{short description|Australian writer (born 1968)}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
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| name             = Sonya Hartnett
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| caption          = Hartnett in 2006, aged 39
| pseudonym        = Cameron S. Redfern
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|March 23, 1968}}
| birth_place      = [[Melbourne]], Australia
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| occupation       = Writer
| language         = English
| nationality      = Australian
| period           = 1984–present
| genre            = Novels, especially [[young adult fiction]]; [[children's literature|children's]] picture books
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| awards           = {{plainlist}}
*[[Kathleen Mitchell Award]] (1996)
*[[Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel]] (2000)
*[[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]] (2002)
*[[The Age Book of the Year Award]] (2003)
*[[Astrid Lindgren Award]] (2008)
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| education        = [[RMIT University]] (1988, BA)
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'''Sonya Louise Hartnett''' (born 23 March 1968)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Hartnett, Sonya 1968- |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hartnett-sonya-1968 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]]}}</ref> is an Australian author of fiction for adults, [[Young adult literature|young adults]], and [[Children's literature|children]]. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation".<ref name=craven/> For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the [[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]] from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, one of the largest cash prizes in children's literature.<ref name=alma2008/><ref name=cassin/>

She has published books as Sonya Hartnett, S. L. Hartnett, and Cameron S. Redfern.<ref name=austlit/>

==Personal life and education==

Hartnett was born 23 March 1968, in [[Melbourne]], Australia to Philip Joseph and Virginia Mary Hartnett.<ref name=":0" /> In 1988, she received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] from the [[Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology]].<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
Hartnett was thirteen years old when she wrote her first novel and fifteen when it was published for the adult market in Australia, ''Trouble All the Way'' ([[Adelaide]]: Rigby Publishers, 1984).<ref>It has been classified as Juvenile Fiction by some libraries. {{WorldCat |oclc=27549040 |name=Trouble All the Way}}. Retrieved 3 June 2013.</ref><ref name="Eccleshare" /> For years she has written about one novel annually.<ref name="austlit" /> Although she is often classified as a writer of [[Young adult literature|young adult fiction]], Hartnett does not consider this label entirely accurate: "I've been perceived as a young adult writer whereas my books have never really been young adult novels in the sort of classic sense of the idea." She believes the distinction is not so important in Britain as in her native land.<ref>[http://www.achuka.co.uk/interviews/hartnett1.php "Sonya Hartnett: London, 2002"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712192502/http://www.achuka.co.uk/interviews/hartnett1.php |date=12 July 2006 }} (interview, part 1 of 5). ACHUKA (''achuka.co.uk''). 2002.</ref>

Many of Hartnett's books have been published in the UK and in North America. For ''Thursday's Child'' (2000; 2002 in the UK), she won the annual [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]], a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.<ref name=prize2002/><ref name=relaunch/> The novel was eligible for such award in 2002 because it was her first publication in the UK. In 2008 she won the [[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]] which is administered by the Swedish Arts Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Sense of Empathy and Involvement - ALMA |url=http://www.alma.se/en/Laureates/2008-Sonya-Hartnett-/Sonya-Hartnett--award-winner-2008/ |website=www.alma.se |access-date=16 January 2019 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117070234/http://www.alma.se/en/Laureates/2008-Sonya-Hartnett-/Sonya-Hartnett--award-winner-2008/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==''Landscape with Animals'' controversy==

In 2006, Hartnett was involved with some controversy regarding the publication of ''Landscape with Animals'', published under the pseudonym Cameron S. Redfern. The book contains many sex scenes and Hartnett was almost immediately "outed" as the author. She said that she wanted to avoid the book being accidentally shelved with her work for children in libraries and denied that she used a [[pseudonym]] to evade responsibility for the work or as a [[publicity stunt]] à la [[Nikki Gemmell]]'s ''[[The Bride Stripped Bare (novel)|The Bride Stripped Bare]]''.<ref name=faking/> In a review published in ''[[The Age]]'', [[Peter Craven (literary critic)|Peter Craven]] savaged the book describing it as an "overblown little sex shocker", a "tawdry little crotch tickler" and lamented that Hartnett was "too good a writer to put her name to this indigestible hairball of spunk and spite".<ref name="craven"/> It was defended vigorously in ''[[The Australian]]'' by [[Marion Halligan]] ("I haven't read many books by Hartnett, but I think this is a much more amazing piece of writing than any of them") who chastised Craven for missing the joke ("How could an experienced critic get that so wrong?") and wonders why female authors writing frankly about sex is so frowned upon.<ref>Marion Halligan (24 June 2006). [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19532698-5001986,00.html "Sex and the singular woman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312170946/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19532698-5001986,00.html |date=12 March 2007 }}. ''[[The Australian]]''.   Quoted in [http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2006/06/ Middlemiss, Weekend Round-Up] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119013810/http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2006/06/ |date=19 November 2018 }}, June 2006</ref>

==Awards and honours==
In 2000 and 2003, ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' named Hartnett one of their Young Novelists of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sonya Hartnett - Literature |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/sonya-hartnett |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=British Council}}</ref>

In 2008, Hartnett received the [[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]], which annually honours an author of children's books whose "a body of work known for its unflinching focus on the toughest aspects of life."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-03-13 |title=Awards: PEN/Faulkner; Astrid Lindgren; Arabic Booker |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=632 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307135030/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=632 |archive-date=2023-03-07 |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]]}}</ref>

In 2016, ''[[Shelf Awareness]]'' included ''Golden Boys'' on their list of the best teen novels of the year.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-12-13 |title=Our Best Children's & Teen Books of the Year |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2899 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123021907/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2899 |url-status=live }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Awards for Hartnett's writing
!Year
!Title
!Award
!Result
!Ref.
|-
! rowspan="5" |1996
| rowspan="4" |''Sleeping Dogs''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]]
|Honour
|
|-
|[[Kathleen Mitchell Award]] (Australia) 
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
|[[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
|[[Victorian Premier's Literary Awards]] Sheaffer Pen Prize 
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
|''Willful Blue''
|[[IBBY]] Ena Noel Award (1996)
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
!1999
|''[[Princes (novel)|Princes]]''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] 
|Shortlist
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |2000
| rowspan="4" |[[Thursday's Child (Hartnett novel)|''Thursday's Child'']] 
|[[Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel]]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref name="LI2001">{{cite web |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2001 Aurealis Awards |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2001.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424013332/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2001.html |archive-date=24 April 2010 |access-date=2010-01-19 |publisher=[[Locus Online]]}}</ref>
|-
|Australian Publishers Association Award
|Shortlist
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |2001
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] 
|Shortlist
|
|-
|[[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
! rowspan="4" |2002
|''[[Forest (novel)|Forest]]''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]] 
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
|''[[Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf]]''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Thursday's Child (Hartnett novel)|''Thursday's Child'']] 
|[[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref name="prize2002" /><ref name="relaunch" />
|-
|[[Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
! rowspan="4" |2003
| rowspan="4" |''[[Of a Boy]]''
|{{Sort|Age Book of the Year Award|[[The Age Book of the Year Award]]}}
|'''Winner'''
|<ref name="austlit2003">{{Cite web |title=The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003 |url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsSeptemberOctober2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121212532/http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsSeptemberOctober2003 |archive-date=21 November 2008 |access-date=21 April 2009}}</ref>
|-
|[[Commonwealth Writers Prize]] (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book)
|Finalist
|<ref name="reg19872007">{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007 |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023223729/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2007 |publisher=Commonwealth Foundation}}</ref>
|-
|[[Miles Franklin Award]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
|[[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
! rowspan="4" |2005
| rowspan="2" |{{Sort|Silver Donkey|''[[The Silver Donkey]]''}}
|''[[The Courier-Mail|Courier Mail]]'' Award for young readers 
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers]]
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |''[[Surrender (novel)|Surrender]]''
|{{Sort|Age Book of the Year Award|[[The Age Book of the Year Award]]}}
|Shortlist
|
|-
|[[Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel]]
|Shortlist
|<ref name="LI2006">{{cite web |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2006 Aurealis Awards |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2006.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420221639/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2006.html |archive-date=20 April 2010 |access-date=2009-11-08 |publisher=[[Locus Online]]}}</ref>
|-
!2006
|[[Commonwealth Foundation prizes|Commonwealth Writers Prize]] (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book) 
|Shortlist
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |2007
|{{Sort|Silver Donkey|''[[The Silver Donkey]]''}}
|[[COOL Award]] Fiction for Years 7-9 
|'''Winner'''
|
|-
|''[[Surrender (novel)|Surrender]]''
|[[Michael L. Printz Award]]
|Honour
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Snelson |first=Karin |title=Golden Boys |url=https://shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=566#m9914 |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=1 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501030522/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=566#m9914 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
!2008
|''[[The Ghost's Child]]''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]]

|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008 WINNERS |url=https://cbca.org.au/winners-2008 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Children's Book Council of Australia]] |archive-date=22 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322191944/https://www.cbca.org.au/winners-2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="3" |2010
|''[[Butterfly (novel)|Butterfly]]''
|[[Miles Franklin Award]]
|Shortlist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2010-04-21 |title=Awards: Miles Franklin; Locus; PubWest Book Design; Etc. |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1168 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506230629/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1168 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|{{sort|Midnight Zoo|''[[The Midnight Zoo]]''}}
|[[Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel]]
|Finalist
|<ref name="AAF 2010">{{cite web |title=Aurealis Awards Finalists 2010 |url=http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists2010.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521042923/http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists2010.pdf |archive-date=21 May 2011 |access-date=2011-03-24 |publisher=SpecFaction NSW}}</ref>
|-
|{{Sort|Silver Donkey|''[[The Silver Donkey]]''}}
|Andersen Award (Italy) Best Book for readers 9–12 
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{cite web |title=The Silver Donkey |url=https://readingaustralia.com.au/books/the-silver-donkey/ |access-date=16 January 2019 |website=Reading Australia |archive-date=16 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416223309/https://readingaustralia.com.au/books/the-silver-donkey/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sonya Hartnett |url=http://www.sonyahartnett.com.au/awards.html |access-date=16 January 2019 |website=www.sonyahartnett.com.au |archive-date=28 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328120309/http://www.sonyahartnett.com.au/awards.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
!2011
|{{sort|Midnight Zoo|''[[The Midnight Zoo]]''}}
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers]]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011 WINNERS |url=https://cbca.org.au/winners-2011 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Children's Book Council of Australia]] |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326175306/https://www.cbca.org.au/winners-2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="3" |2012
| rowspan="2" |''Come Down, Cat!''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers]]
|Honour
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012 WINNERS |url=https://cbca.org.au/winners-2012 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Children's Book Council of Australia]] |archive-date=22 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322191854/https://www.cbca.org.au/winners-2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[Prime Minister's Literary Awards]] for Children's Fiction
|Finalist
|<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |title=2012 shortlists |url=http://www.arts.gov.au/funding/awards/pmla/2012/shortlists |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602025832/http://www.arts.gov.au/funding/awards/pmla/2012/shortlists |archive-date=2012-06-02 |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Office for the Arts}}</ref>
|-
|{{sort|Midnight Zoo|''[[The Midnight Zoo]]''}}
|[[CILIP]] [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] 
|Shortlist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-03-28 |title=Awards: Miles Franklin Longlist; Carnegie Medal Shortlist |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1702 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206024447/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1702 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="2" |2013
| rowspan="2" |{{Sort|Children of the King|''[[The Children of the King]]''}}
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers]]
|'''Winner'''
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2013 |url=https://cbca.org.au/winners-2013 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Children's Book Council of Australia]] |archive-date=5 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405180432/https://cbca.org.au/winners-2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[Prime Minister's Literary Awards]] Young Adult Fiction
|Shortlist
|<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Prime Minister's Literary Awards – 2013 shortlists |url=https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/past-winners-and-shortlists/shortlists/2013-shortlist |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220114503/https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/past-winners-and-shortlists/shortlists/2013-shortlist |archive-date=20 December 2016 |access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="5" |2015
| rowspan="5" |''[[Golden Boys (novel)|Golden Boys]]'' 
|[[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|Christine Stead Prize for Fiction]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
|[[Miles Franklin Award]]
|Shortlist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-05-19 |title=Awards: Chautauqua; Ondaatje; Miles Franklin; SCBWI |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2510 |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |archive-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610004305/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2510 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
|[[Prime Minister's Literary Awards]] for Fiction
|Finalist
|
|-
|[[Victorian Premier's Literary Awards]]
|Shortlist
|
|-
!2022
|''Blue Flower''
|[[Children's Book Council of Australia|CBCA]] [[Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book]] 
|Shortlist
|<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-03-30 |title=CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/03/30/212257/cbca-2022-book-of-the-year-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331191853/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/03/30/212257/cbca-2022-book-of-the-year-shortlists-announced/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

== Bibliography ==

===Fiction===
====Picture books====

* ''The Boy and the Toy'' (2010)
* ''Come Down, Cat!'' (2011)
* ''Blue Flower'' (2021)
* ''Go Home, Cat!'' (2022)

====Junior fiction====

* ''[[The Silver Donkey]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Sadie and Ratz]]'' (2008)
* ''[[The Children of the King]]'' (2012)

====Teen and young adult fiction====

* ''Wilful Blue'' (1994)
** produced as a play and performed at the [[Victorian Arts Centre]]
* ''Sleeping Dogs'' (1995)
* ''The Devil Latch'' (1996)
* ''[[Princes (novel)|Princes]]'' (1997)
* ''All My Dangerous Friends'' (1998)
* ''[[Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf]]'' (1999) (published in the UK in 2004)
* ''[[Thursday's Child (Hartnett novel)|Thursday's Child]]'' (2000) (published in the UK in 2002)
* ''[[Forest (novel)|Forest]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Surrender (novel)|Surrender]]'' (2005)
* ''[[The Ghost's Child]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Butterfly (novel)|Butterfly]]'' (2009)
* ''[[The Midnight Zoo]]'' (2010)

====Adult fiction====

* ''Trouble All the Way'' (1984)
* ''Sparkle and Nightflower'' (1986)
* ''[[The Glass House (novel)|The Glass House]]'' (1990)
* ''Black Foxes'' (1996)
*{{cite book |author1=Earls, Nick |author2=Sonya Hartnett |author3=Heide Seaman |title=There must be lions : stories about mental illness |location=Charnwood, A.C.T. |publisher=Ginninderra Press |year=1998 <!--isbn=1876259345-->}}
* ''[[Of a Boy]]'' (adult, 2002) (first published in the UK as ''What the Birds See'' in 2003)
* ''Landscape with Animals'' (2006), as by Cameron S. Redfern
* ''[[Golden Boys (novel)|Golden Boys]]'' (2014)

===Memoirs===

* ''Life in Ten Houses: A Memoir'' (2013)

== Selected critical studies and reviews of Hartnett's work ==
*{{cite journal |author=Case, Jo |date=Sep 2014 |title=Bearing witness |journal=[[Australian Book Review]] |volume=364 |pages=13 |url= <!--access-date= -->}} Review of ''Golden Boys''

==See also==
{{Portal bar |Children's literature |Speculative fiction |Australia }} <!-- delete the word "bar" if there are enough ordinary See also -->

==References==
{{reflist |25em |refs=
<ref name=prize2002>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/guardianchildrensfictionprize2002/0,,752796,00.html The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002024411/http://books.guardian.co.uk/guardianchildrensfictionprize2002/0,,752796,00.html |date=2 October 2012 }} (top page).  ''[[guardian.co.uk]]''. Retrieved 8 August 2012.</ref>
<ref name=relaunch>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090634/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize |date=27 March 2019 }}. ''guardian.co.uk''. 12 March 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2012.</ref>

<ref name=alma2008>
[http://www.alma.se/en/Award-winners/2008-Sonya-Hartnett-/ "2008: Sonya Hartnett: A Concealed Yet Palpable Anger"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019122530/http://www.alma.se/en/Award-winners/2008-Sonya-Hartnett-/ |date=19 October 2012 }}.<!-- combines pdf and html titles --> The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved 2012-08-13.</ref>
<ref name=cassin>{{cite news |title= Hartnett wins top prize for children's literature |author= Ray Cassin |newspaper= The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) |url= http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/hartnett-wins-top-prize/2008/03/13/1205126111409.html |access-date= 22 March 2008 |date= 14 March 2008 |archive-date= 16 March 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080316013148/http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/hartnett-wins-top-prize/2008/03/13/1205126111409.html |url-status= live }}</ref>
<ref name=craven>Peter Craven (20 May 2006). [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/05/19/1147545510430.html "Landscape with Animals"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311155651/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/05/19/1147545510430.html |date=11 March 2007 }} (review). ''[[The Age]]''.</ref>
<ref name=faking>Sonya Hartnett (28 May 2006). [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/faking-it/2006/05/27/1148524929347.html "Faking It"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623014246/http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/faking-it/2006/05/27/1148524929347.html |date=23 June 2006 }}. ''[[The Age]]''.</ref>

<ref name=austlit>{{cite web |title=Hartnett, Sonya (a.k.a. Hartnett, S. L.) |publisher=Austlit Agent Details |url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=Ajz |access-date=28 August 2007 |archive-date=29 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829160631/http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=Ajz |url-status=live }} (subscription required for full access)</ref>

<ref name=Eccleshare>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview32|first=Julia|last=Eccleshare|author-link=Julia Eccleshare|title=Dig a little deeper|website=The Guardian|date=12 October 2002|access-date=14 November 2018|archive-date=15 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115112739/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview32|url-status=live}}</ref>
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==External links==
* {{official website}}
* {{isfdb name |6750 |Sonya Hartnett }}
* {{british council |sonya-hartnett }}
* [http://www.penguin.com.au/contributors/2793/sonya-hartnett Sonya Hartnett] at [[Penguin Books]]
* {{LCAuth|name=Sonya Hartnett}}
* [http://www.achuka.co.uk/interviews/hartnett1.php 2002 interview]
* [http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=701 2007 interview]

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