Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 23, 1968 Melbourne,Australia |
| Pen name | Cameron S. Redfern |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology(1988, BA) |
| Period | 1984–present |
| Genre | Novels, especiallyyoung adult fiction;children'spicture books |
| Notable awards | |
Sonya Louise Hartnett(born March 23, 1968, inMelbourne)[1]is an Australian author of fiction for adults,young adults,andchildren.She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation".[2]For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won theAstrid Lindgren Memorial Awardfrom the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, the biggest prize in children's literature.[3][4]
She has published books as Sonya Hartnett, S. L. Hartnett, and Cameron S. Redfern.[5][6]
Personal life and education
[edit]Hartnett was born March 23, 1968, inMelbourne,Australia to Philip Joseph and Virginia Mary Hartnett.[1]In 1988, she received aBachelor of Artsfrom theRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology.[1]
Career
[edit]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).[7][8]For years she has written about one novel annually.[6]Although she is often classified as a writer ofyoung 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.[9]
According to theNational Library of Australia,"The novel for which Hartnett has achieved the most critical (and controversial) acclaim wasSleeping Dogs".[5]The book, which involves incest between siblings, is "often critiqued as 'without hope'" but has "generated enormous discussion both within Australia and overseas."[5]
Many of Hartnett's books have been published in the UK and in North America. ForThursday's Child(2000; 2002 in the UK), she won the annualGuardian Children's Fiction Prize,a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.[10][11]The novel was eligible for such award in 2002 because it was her first publication in the UK. In 2008 she won theAstrid Lindgren Memorial Awardwhich is administered by the Swedish Arts Council.[12]
Landscape with Animalscontroversy
[edit]In 2006, Hartnett was involved with some controversy regarding the publication ofLandscape 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 apseudonymto evade responsibility for the work or as apublicity stuntà laNikki Gemmell'sThe Bride Stripped Bare.[13]In a review published inThe Age,Peter Cravensavaged 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".[2]It was defended vigorously inThe AustralianbyMarion 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.[14]
Awards and honours
[edit]In 2000 and 2003,The Sydney Morning Heraldnamed Hartnett one of their Young Novelists of the Year.[15]
In 2008, Hartnett received theAstrid 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."[16]
In 2016,Shelf AwarenessincludedGolden Boyson their list of the best teen novels of the year.[17]
Bibliography
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Fiction
[edit]Picture books
[edit]- The Boy and the Toy(2010)
- Come Down, Cat!(2011)
- Blue Flower(2021)
Junior fiction
[edit]- The Silver Donkey(2004)
- Sadie and Ratz(2008)
- The Children of the King(2012)
Teen and young adult fiction
[edit]- Wilful Blue(1994)
- produced as a play and performed at theVictorian Arts Centre
- Sleeping Dogs(1995)
- The Devil Latch(1996)
- Princes(1997)
- All My Dangerous Friends(1998)
- Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf(1999) (published in the UK in 2004)
- Thursday's Child(2000) (published in the UK in 2002)
- Forest(2001)
- Surrender(2005)
- The Ghost's Child(2007)
- Butterfly(2009)
- The Midnight Zoo(2010)
Adult fiction
[edit]- Trouble All the Way(1984)
- Sparkle and Nightflower(1986)
- The Glass House(1990)
- Black Foxes(1996)
- Earls, Nick; Sonya Hartnett; Heide Seaman (1998).There must be lions: stories about mental illness.Charnwood, A.C.T.: Ginninderra Press.
- Of a Boy(adult, 2002) (first published in the UK asWhat the Birds Seein 2003)
- Landscape with Animals(2006), as by Cameron S. Redfern
- Golden Boys(2014)
Memoirs
[edit]- Life in Ten Houses: A Memoir(2013)
Critical studies and reviews of Hartnett's work
[edit]- Case, Jo (September 2014). "Bearing witness".Australian Book Review.364:13.Review ofGolden Boys
See also
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References
[edit]- ^abc"Hartnett, Sonya 1968-".Encyclopedia.com.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^abPeter Craven (20 May 2006)."Landscape with Animals"Archived11 March 2007 at theWayback Machine(review).The Age.
- ^ "2008: Sonya Hartnett: A Concealed Yet Palpable Anger"Archived19 October 2012 at theWayback Machine.The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ^Ray Cassin (14 March 2008)."Hartnett wins top prize for children's literature".The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au).Archivedfrom the original on 16 March 2008.Retrieved22 March2008.
- ^abc (National Library of Australia identity file)[permanent dead link].Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ab"Hartnett, Sonya (a.k.a. Hartnett, S. L.)".Austlit Agent Details.Archivedfrom the original on 29 August 2007.Retrieved28 August2007.(subscription required for full access)
- ^It has been classified as Juvenile Fiction by some libraries.Trouble All the Wayin libraries (WorldCatcatalog). Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^"Sonya Hartnett: London, 2002"Archived12 July 2006 at theWayback Machine(interview, part 1 of 5). ACHUKA (achuka.co.uk). 2002.
- ^abThe Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2002Archived2 October 2012 at theWayback Machine(top page).guardian.co.uk.Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ab"Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"Archived27 March 2019 at theWayback Machine.guardian.co.uk.12 March 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^"A Sense of Empathy and Involvement - ALMA".www.alma.se.Archivedfrom the original on 17 January 2019.Retrieved16 January2019.
- ^Sonya Hartnett (28 May 2006)."Faking It"Archived23 June 2006 at theWayback Machine.The Age.
- ^Marion Halligan (24 June 2006)."Sex and the singular woman"Archived12 March 2007 at theWayback Machine.The Australian.[dead link]Quoted inMiddlemiss, Weekend Round-UpArchived19 November 2018 at theWayback Machine,June 2006
- ^"Sonya Hartnett - Literature".British Council.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"Awards: PEN/Faulkner; Astrid Lindgren; Arabic Booker".Shelf Awareness.13 March 2008.Archivedfrom the original on 7 March 2023.Retrieved16 March2023.
- ^"Our Best Children's & Teen Books of the Year".Shelf Awareness.13 December 2016.Archivedfrom the original on 23 January 2023.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2001 Aurealis Awards".Locus Online.Archivedfrom the original on 24 April 2010.Retrieved19 January2010.
- ^"The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003".Archivedfrom the original on 21 November 2008.Retrieved21 April2009.
- ^"Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007"(PDF).Commonwealth Foundation. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 23 October 2007.
- ^"The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2006 Aurealis Awards".Locus Online.Archived fromthe originalon 20 April 2010.Retrieved8 November2009.
- ^Snelson, Karin."Golden Boys".Shelf Awareness.Archivedfrom the original on 1 May 2023.Retrieved30 May2023.
- ^"BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008 WINNERS".Children's Book Council of Australia.Archivedfrom the original on 22 March 2023.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"Awards: Miles Franklin; Locus; PubWest Book Design; Etc".Shelf Awareness.21 April 2010.Archivedfrom the original on 6 May 2021.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"Aurealis Awards Finalists 2010"(PDF).SpecFaction NSW. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 21 May 2011.Retrieved24 March2011.
- ^"The Silver Donkey".Reading Australia.Archivedfrom the original on 16 April 2019.Retrieved16 January2019.
- ^"Sonya Hartnett".www.sonyahartnett.com.au.Archivedfrom the original on 28 March 2019.Retrieved16 January2019.
- ^"BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011 WINNERS".Children's Book Council of Australia.Archivedfrom the original on 26 March 2023.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012 WINNERS".Children's Book Council of Australia.Archivedfrom the original on 22 March 2023.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"2012 shortlists".Office for the Arts.Archived fromthe originalon 2 June 2012.Retrieved10 March2023.
- ^"Awards: Miles Franklin Longlist; Carnegie Medal Shortlist".Shelf Awareness.28 March 2012.Archivedfrom the original on 6 February 2023.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2013".Children's Book Council of Australia.Archivedfrom the original on 5 April 2021.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"Prime Minister's Literary Awards – 2013 shortlists".Archivedfrom the original on 20 December 2016.Retrieved10 December2016.
- ^"Awards: Chautauqua; Ondaatje; Miles Franklin; SCBWI".Shelf Awareness.19 May 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 10 June 2022.Retrieved31 May2023.
- ^"CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced".Books+Publishing.30 March 2022.Archivedfrom the original on 31 March 2022.Retrieved29 March2022.
External links
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- 20th-century Australian novelists
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- Australian children's writers
- Australian women novelists
- Australian writers of young adult literature
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winners
- Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners
- Writers from Melbourne
- RMIT University alumni
- 1968 births
- Living people
- British women children's writers
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- Women writers of young adult literature
- 21st-century Australian women writers
- People from Box Hill, Victoria