Author Sofie Laguna: photo by Brigid Arnott
Already celebrated for her books for young people, author Sofie Laguna was tonight announced as the winner of Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for The Eye of the Sheep, her second novel for adults.
Laguna receives $60,000 in prize money for her novel, which strongly presents ‘Australian Life in any of its phases’ and is of the ‘highest literary merit,’ in keeping with the criteria set out in the Will of My Brilliant Career author, Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin.
