Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett ( born February 23, 1968 in Box Hill, Melbourne) is an Australian writer.

Your first novel "trouble down the line ," she wrote at the age of 13 years. She mainly writes books for children and young adults, but also for adults, such as " Of a Boy " and under the pseudonym Cameron S. Redfern the reception are very controversial novel " Landscape with Animals" (2006, dt "Secret Desire " 2007).

The media scholar writes provocatively. It is characterized by its representation unadorned reality that links them with elements of "Gothic Novel " and the " magical realism ". Her writing is influenced by Ivan Southall, Robert Cormier and is compared to John Steinbeck and William Faulkner.

Sonya Hartnett was awarded in 2008, endowed with 532,000 euros Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

Works and Awards

• Trouble All the Way (1984, dt "trouble down the line " )
• Sparkle and Night Flower ( 1986)
• The Glass House (1990 )
• Wilful Blue (1994, dt " Unexpected Blue " )

• Sleeping Dogs (1995, dt " Sleeping Dogs ", 1998)

• Black Foxes (1996 )
• The Devil Latch (1996, dt " Evil Voices", 1999)
• Princes (1997, dt " Prince ", 2005)
• All My Dangerous Friends (1998)
• Stripes Of The Sidestep Wolf ( 1999)
• Thursday's Child (2000, dt " Thursday Child " )

• Forest (2001)

• Of a Boy (2002)

• The Silver Donkey (2004)

• Surrender ( 2005)

• Landscape with Animals (2006, as Cameron S. Redfern, dt "Secret Desire ", 2007)
• The Ghost 's Child (2007)