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
lonely fall rain
You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.
brave scary sometimes
It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.
lonely
I would always be lonely, but no more alone.
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.
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.
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.
arts bachelor became bigger catholic experience formative hugely media private school spent suddenly three
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.