Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett is the author of eighteen novels, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning Of A Boy (2000), and Thursday's Child (2002). In 2010 Hartnett published her début picture book, The Boy and the Toy, and her latest novel for younger readers, The Midnight Zoo. She lives in Melbourne.

Sonya Hartnett reviews ‘Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by young writers aged 11-20 years’ by Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis

October 2004, no. 265 • 01 October 2004

In 2002 Eva Sallis – activist and author of, among others, the 1997 Vogel winner Hiam, – launched ‘Australia IS Refugees’, a writing competition for young people aged between eleven and twenty years old. The competition – a project of the humanitarian organisation Australians against Racism, of which Sallis is present – swiftly gained the support of a wide range of high-profile compani ... (read more)

Sonya Hartnett revisits 'A Difficult Young Man' by Martin Boyd

March 2012, no. 339 • 01 March 2012

Few writers, it could be argued, have ever cannibalised life for their art as ruthlessly and consistently as did Martin Boyd; and few are born into situations which lend themselves so readily to art. Boyd’s working life – indeed, much of his entire existence – was spent trying to unite the past with the present, the old world with the new, himself with the man he might have been; and in comm ... (read more)