She also published her fourth picture book, Blue Flower, illustrated by Gabriel Evans, in 2021 and it was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award. Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett During the Depression, young Harper Flute and her family are barely getting by. Golden Boys, Sonya’s third novel for adults, was shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. In a starred review, PW wrote, 'Set in the harsh mining outback of Australia during the Depression, this. She has won numerous awards throughout her extended career and has had many of her books. For her book Thursdays Child, she won the annual Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British childrens writers. Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008). Candlewick, 7.99 (261pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2203-9. Thursdays Child by Sonya Hartnett During the Depression, young Harper Flute and her family are barely getting by. Sonya Hartnett is an Australian writer of childrens, young adult, and adult fiction and nonfiction. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ( Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year ( Of A Boy), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize ( Thursday's Child), the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers ( Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost's Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier's Literary Award ( Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for both Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal ( The Midnight Zoo).

Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Sonya Hartnett This somber yet not hopeless fable set during WWII offers a haunting portrait of families, human and otherwise, torn apart. Sonya Hartnett's work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world.