SHARING STORIES: An evening with Sofie Laguna

Name: SHARING STORIES: An evening with Sofie Laguna
Start: 2026-05-28T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-05-28T18:00:00+10:00
Location: Petersen's Bookstore

About

Welcome to SHARING STORIES. We are bringing your favourite authors to discuss your favourite books, and hold conversations that matter. This month we are joined by Miles Franklin award winning author Sofie Laguna. Sofie has written many works for children and adults and is published both in Australia and internationally.

Sofie's latest novel, The Underworld, was released in 2025 and is also our book club read for May. Sofie will be sitting down in conversation with Chantelle to discuss her career transition from law to acting to writing, how she goes about crafting a novel and of course, we dive into her most recent work The Underworld.

About Sofie:
Prior to her career as an author, Sofie Laguna studied law and trained as an actor before embarking on her literary life. Sofie’s second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep won the 2015 Miles Franklin Award. It was also longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin International Book Award and shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Sofie’s first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, published throughout Europe, the US and the UK, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Sofie’s third adult novel, The Choke, won the 2018 Indie Award in the Best Novel category, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards, the Voss Award, the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal, and longlisted for the Stella Award, the Kibble Award, the Colin Roderick Literary Award and the IMPAC Dublin International Book Award. Sofie’s most recent novel for adults, Infinite Splendours, won the 2021 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award and the HT Priestley Medal, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Indie Award and the Australian Book Industry Awards.

Sofie is now an award-winning author for children and adults. Her many books for young people have been published in the US, the UK and in translation throughout Europe and Asia. She has been short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s Award, and her books have been named Honour Books and Notable Books by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Titles include ‘Too Loud Lily’, ‘Our Australian Girl: Meet Grace’ and ‘Bird and Sugar Boy.’

Sofie has recently released a number of books for children, including the novels, The Song of Lewis Carmichael, and The Glow, both illustrated by her husband, Marc McBride.

Registration is essential to attend as we have limited spaces.