Sofie Laguna

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

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. 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.