Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Louise Hartnett is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". 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, the biggest prize in children's literature...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth23 March 1968
CountryAustralia
water despair fool
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
dying atoms feels
Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
fairy-stories trying way
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
eye bird towns
A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
eye sonya let-me
Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
want knows
I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.
although chick rather science
If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.
hope people
I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.
won
I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.
dictated flexible whatever work
I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.
along bones continue either gotten written
I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.
basically books child family stop time
I have thought you could not give everything to your books and also to your children, so for a long time, I thought if I had a child or a family, I'd think, 'How would I support them?' because basically I would stop writing.
creature explore humans lived mostly needs wild worlds wrote
I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.
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I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.