Hartnett, Sonya (1968-)

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Hartnett, S. L. (1968-)
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35258538
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Sonya Hartnett is widely regarded as one of Australia's outstanding literary novelists in the young adult genre, with several of her novels published in the 'cross-over' market for both adult and young adult imprints. Her first novel, Trouble All the Way, (1984) was published when she was a teenager and she continues to publish generally a novel a year. Her books have been published in Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland and Denmark, as well as in various English-language editions. Hallmarks of Harnett's work are their cadence and smooth writing style, intense dramatic conflict, memorable characterisation, and frequent less-than-happy endings. Hartnett states that she prefers to write from a male perspective and finds music an inspiration for her writing. One of Hartnett's novels, Wilful Blue, (1994) was produced as a play and publicly performed at the Melbourne Victorian Arts Centre. The novel for which Hartnett has achieved the most critical (and controversial) acclaim was Sleeping Dogs, an Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1996, as well as winner of the 1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize and the 1996 Miles Franklin Inaugural Kathleen Mitchell Award. A book involving incest between brother and sister and often critiqued as 'without hope', Sleeping Dogs generated enormous discussion both within Australia and overseas)

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Resources for Sonya Hartnett

Resources by Sonya Hartnett (43)

  1. Wolf Creek / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book : 2011 ]
    At 36 libraries
    Wolf Creek / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 37.861)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 37.861)

  2. Of a boy / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book, Audio book : 2002-2011 ]
    Languages: English, Chinese, Slovenian, [3 others]
    Read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    At 109 libraries
    Of a boy / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 34.388)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 34.388)

  3. Forest / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Audio book, Book : 1900-2004 ]
    Possibly online
    At 96 libraries
    Forest / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 34.177)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 34.177)

  4. Come down, cat! / Sonya Hartnett ; illustrated by Lucia Masciullo
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book : 2011-2012 ]
    At 104 libraries
    Come down, cat! / Sonya Hartnett ; illustrated by Lucia Masciullo
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 33.489)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 33.489)

  5. Butterfly / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book, Audio book : 2009-2012 ]
    Languages: English, Slovenian, Italian
    Possibly online
    At 105 libraries
    Butterfly / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.863)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.863)

  6. Thursday's child / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book, Audio book : 2000-2009 ]
    Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, [2 others]
    Possibly online
    At 112 libraries
    Thursday's child / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.532)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.532)

  7. Stripes of the sidestep wolf / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book, Audio book : 1900-2007 ]
    Languages: English, Swedish
    Read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
    View online
    At 102 libraries
    Stripes of the sidestep wolf / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.343)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.343)

  8. The ghost's child / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book, Audio book : 1900-2010 ]
    Languages: English, Dutch, Korean
    Possibly online
    At 122 libraries
    The ghost's child / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.219)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28.219)

  9. All my dangerous friends / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Audio book, Book : 1996-2006 ]
    Possibly online
    At 89 libraries
    All my dangerous friends / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 28)

  10. The children of the King / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Audio book, Book : 2012 ]
    At 83 libraries
    The children of the King / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 27.459)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 27.459)

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Resources about Sonya Hartnett (7)

  1. Wolf Creek / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book : 2011 ]
    At 36 libraries
    Wolf Creek / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 38.251)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 38.251)

  2. Life in ten houses : a memoir / Sonya Hartnett
    Hartnett, Sonya, 1968-
    [ Book : 2013 ]
    At 2 libraries
    Life in ten houses : a memoir / Sonya Hartnett
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.907)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 22.907)

  3. [Biographical cuttings on Sonya Hartnett, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.367)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.367)

  4. Of a boy by Sonya Hartnett : notes / by Laurie Clancy
    Clancy, Laurie, 1942-
    [ Book : 2004 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.245)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.245)

  5. Surrender by Sonya Hartnett : notes / by Kevin Brophy
    Brophy, Kevin, 1949-
    [ Book : 2006 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.238)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.238)

  6. Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett : notes / by Samarra Hyde
    Hyde, Samarra
    [ Book : 2010 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.09)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.09)

  7. Sonya Hartnett / Susan Gordon-Brown
    Gordon-Brown, Susan
    [ Photograph : 2005 ]
    Possibly online
    At State Library of VIC
    Sonya Hartnett / Susan Gordon-Brown
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.355)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.355)

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    Keywords: Australian authors, Australian children's literature, book awards, children's literature, young adult fiction
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  1. Sonya Hartnett's The Ghost's Child
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National
    [ Sound : 2007 ]
    View online
    At ABC Radio National
    Sonya Hartnett's The Ghost's Child
    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.353)

    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.353)

  2. The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (review)
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National
    [ Sound : 2010 ]
    View online
    At ABC Radio National
    The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (review)
    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.117)

    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.117)

  3. The devil's latch
    Hartnett, Sonya
    [ Sound : 2002 ]
    At WhitehorseManning
    The devil's latch
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    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.102)

  4. Princes
    Hartnett, Sonya
    [ Sound : 2002 ]
    At WhitehorseManning
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  1. [Kibble Awards for Literature 2010 : entries submitted]
    [ Published : 2008-2009 ]
    At State Library of NSW
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  2. 5775 Brisbane Writers Centre Records
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    [ Unpublished : 1995-2000 ]
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    At State Library of QLD
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.547)

  2. Elam School of Fine Arts / [editor, Sonya Korohina ; co-ordinator Louis Hannah ; designer, Warren Olds, Studio Ahoy ; image editors, Warren Olds and Jim Speers ; photographers, Darren Glass and Sam Hartnett]
    Korohina, Sonya
    [ Book : 2010 ]
    At Nat Gall Aus Res
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  3. The narrator and child’s consciousness in fiction
    Nielsen, D
    [ Thesis : 2009 ]
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    At RMIT Research
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  4. The shadow thief / Alexandra Adornetto
    Adornetto, Alexandra
    [ Book, Audio book : 2007-2012 ]
    Languages: English, Spanish
    At 80 libraries
    The shadow thief / Alexandra Adornetto
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  1. Website: State Library of Victoria
    www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au
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    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.055)

  2. Website: Penguin books
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  3. Website: LiteraryMinded
    blogs.crikey.com.au
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  1. Family Notices
    The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) Monday 7 August 1961 p 10 Family Notices
    ... BIRTHS BETTS.-On August 5, to Jan and Bruce, a daughter, Sonya Lea. Both well. EDDOWES.-To Mavis and Des a daughter, Susan Christine. Both well. ENGAGEMENTS DANIEL - HARTNETT. - Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hart Hart- nett, of 3 Ewart Street, Yarralumla, have much pleasure in announcing the ... 500 words
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  2. Family Notices
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Monday 28 December 1953 p 10 Family Notices
    ... UNDERTAKERS PTY. , Geo. Hartnett, Puneral Director. FUNERAL NOTICES HUGHES. - The Relatives and ... 12.45. BRISBANE UNDERTAKERS PTY. Geo. Hartnett, Funeral Director. SERGISON, Christina Mary, 6 Brerc ... Relatives and Friends of Mrs. J. J. Statham, Sonya, Margo, and Jon. of 2 Leon ard Street, Toowoomba. are re ... 4785 words
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  3. Family Notices
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Wednesday 12 August 1953 p 18 Family Notices
    ... Daughter, to Grace and Frank (Sonya Meryl i. Sister for Oay nnd Ross, CAMPIliai..- At Roma Hospital, ... Brisbane Ceme tery. BRISBANE UNDERTAKERS PTY. GEO. HARTNETT. Funeral Director. CONNELLY. Michael F.- The ... (Thursday), for Mt. Thompson Crematorium. Ser vice at 10.45. BRISBANE UNDERTAKERS PTY. GEO. HARTNETT. ... 5649 words
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    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.003)

  1. Making it sing: [Interview with Sonya Hartnett]
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    Viewpoint (Parkville, Vic)
    [ Article : 2005 ]
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    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.676)

  2. The colour of success [Sonya Hartnett describes her method of writing a successful novel. Article based on a talk given in Shanghai as part of AusLink's Australian Literature Touring Program.]
    Hartnett, Sonya
    Australian Author
    [ Article : 2004 ]
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.468)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.468)

  3. Genre bender [Profile of author, Sonya Hartnett]
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    Bulletin (Sydney)
    [ Article : 2006 ]
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.347)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.347)

  4. Her dark materials [Novelist Sonya Hartnett]
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    Sydney Morning Herald. Good Weekend
    [ Article : 2005 ]
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.314)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.314)