Sofie Laguna

Sofie Laguna
Born	1968 Sydney, New South Wales
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Notable awards	Miles Franklin Award, 2015
Years active	2003-

Sofie Laguna (born 1968) is an Australian novelist. She was born in Sydney and studied law before deciding that being a lawyer was not for her. She has worked as an actor and is now a writer and playwright.^[1] She now lives in Melbourne.

Awards

2003 honour book Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood for Too Loud Lily
2007 honour book Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers for Bird and Sugar Boy
2009 longlisted Miles Franklin Award for One Foot Wrong
2009 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards for One Foot Wrong
2015 shortlisted Stella Prize for The Eye of the Sheep
2015 winner Miles Franklin Award for The Eye of the Sheep
2015 commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — FAW Christina Stead Award for The Eye of the Sheep

Bibliography

Novels

One Foot Wrong (2008)
The Eye of the Sheep (2014)

Children's

Bill's Best Day (2002)
Bad Buster (2003)
Surviving Aunt Marsha (2003)
Big Ned's Bushwalk (2005)
Bird and Sugar Boy (2006)
Meet Grace (2011)
A Friend for Grace (2011)
Grace and Glory (2011)
A Home for Grace (2011)
The Grace Stories (2013)
1836 : Do You Dare? : Fighting Bones (2014)

Picture books

My Yellow Blanky (2002) with Tom Jellett (illustrator)
Too Loud Lily (2002) with Kerry Argent (illustrator)
On Our Way to the Beach (2004) with Andrew McLean (illustrator)
Stephen's Music (2007) with Anna Pignataro (illustrator)
Boris Monster, Scared of Nothing (2007) with Ben Redlich (illustrator)
Where Are You, Banana? (2013) with Craig Smith (illustrator)

Personal life

Laguna lives in Eltham in suburban Melbourne with her partner Marc McBride, an illustrator, and their two sons.^[2]

References

↑ Miles Franklin Award - Biography - Sofie Laguna
↑ Susan Wyndham, "Novelist gets top Mileage out of drama", The Age, 24 June 2015, p. 12

Recipients of the Miles Franklin Literary Award

1957–1975	Patrick White (1957) Randolph Stow (1958) Vance Palmer (1959) Elizabeth O'Conner (1960) Patrick White (1961) Thea Astley / George Turner (1962) Sumner Locke Elliott (1963) George Johnston (1964) Thea Astley (1965) Peter Mathers (1966) Thomas Keneally (1967) Thomas Keneally (1968) George Johnston (1969) Dal Stivens (1970) David Ireland (1971) Thea Astley (1972) No award (1973) Ronald McKie (1974) Xavier Herbert (1975)

1976–2000	David Ireland (1976) Ruth Park (1977) Jessica Anderson (1978) David Ireland (1979) Jessica Anderson (1980) Peter Carey (1981) Rodney Hall (1982) No award (1983) Tim Winton (1984) Christopher Koch (1985) Elizabeth Jolley (1986) Glenda Adams (1987) No award (1988) Peter Carey (1989) Tom Flood (1990) David Malouf (1991) Tim Winton (1992) Alex Miller (1993) Rodney Hall (1994) Helen Demidenko (1995) Christopher Koch (1996) David Foster (1997) Peter Carey (1998) Murray Bail (1999) Thea Astley / Kim Scott (2000)

2001–present	Frank Moorhouse (2001) Tim Winton (2002) Alex Miller (2003) Shirley Hazzard (2004) Andrew McGahan (2005) Roger McDonald (2006) Alexis Wright (2007) Steven Carroll (2008) Tim Winton (2009) Peter Temple (2010) Kim Scott (2011) Anna Funder (2012) Michelle de Kretser (2013) Evie Wyld (2014) Sofie Laguna (2015) A. S. Patrić (2016)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 85996656 LCCN: n2003054862 ISNI: 0000 0000 7884 9443 GND: 137817134

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