Sofie Laguna Explained

Sofie Laguna
Birth Place:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Language:	English
Nationality:	Australian
Awards:	Miles Franklin Award, 2015
Years Active:	2003–present

Sofie Laguna is an Australian writer.

Early life and education

Sofie Laguna was born in Sydney. She studied law.

Career

After deciding that being a lawyer was not for her, worked as an actor for a while, before becoming a writer and playwright.^[1]

Awards

• 2003 honour book for Too Loud Lily^[2]
• 2007 honour book 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
• 2018 longlisted Stella Prize for The Choke
• 2018 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize for The Choke
• 2021 longlisted Miles Franklin Award for Infinite Splendours^[3]
• 2021 winner Colin Roderick Award for Infinite Splendours^[4]

Bibliography

Novels

• One Foot Wrong (2008)
• The Eye of the Sheep (2014)
• The Choke (2017)
• Infinite Splendours (2020)

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

As of June 2015 Laguna lived in Eltham in suburban Melbourne with her partner Marc McBride, an illustrator, and their two sons.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: sofie . milesfranklin.com.au . 3 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150623162323/http://www.milesfranklin.com.au/2015/bios/sofie.htm . 23 June 2015 . dead . 10 November 2023.
2. Web site: Sofie Laguna. 2021-05-18. AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. en.
3. Web site: 2021-05-18. Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced. 2021-05-18. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
4. Web site: 2021-10-15. Laguna wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award. 2021-10-15. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
5. Susan Wyndham, "Novelist gets top Mileage out of drama", The Age, 24 June 2015, p. 12