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Rosanne Hawke is a South Australian author of forty books for children and young adults. As a child Rosanne Hawke pretended to be a writer and buried snippets of stories in tins on her farm. She was born in Penola, South Australia but grew up in Central Queensland, Australia and often played by herself, making up stories with herself as the superhero. Later, Rosanne used storytelling in the classroom and told stories to her own children. Her daughter Lenore asked her to write one of them for her. Rosanne and her family were living in Pakistan and the Middle East as aid workers for ten years; they made friends, went to weddings, experienced an earthquake and had many adventures in the mountains and bazaars, which ended up in her books. Now Rosanne lives near Kapunda, SA, the oldest mining town in Australia in an old Cornish farmhouse with underground rooms. She is a Cornish Bard and taught Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide.
Rosanne’s interests include cultures, faith, relationships, family, history, country, mystery, music and all things Cornish. She often writes about young people at a point of displacement, whether it be moving between countries, from the city to a rural area (Zenna Dare), or facing a change in their circumstances (The Messenger Bird). She is also interested in giving a story or ‘voice’ to children unheard, e.g. those living in a war zone (Shahana: Through my Eyes), trafficking (Mountain Wolf) or a forced marriage (Marrying Ameera), or living in a drought: Alex. Rosanne calls her work faith-informed just as the many experiences she’s had also inform her work. Many of her books have been shortlisted or deemed Notable in major Australian awards. Taj and the Great Camel Trek won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Award for Children’s Literature; The Messenger Bird won the 2013 Cornish Holyer an Gof award for YA and Children’s Literature, plus the inaugural Ann Trevenen Jenkin Cup. Flying Blind won the 2024 Caleb Prize for YA fiction.
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