Sarah Hopkins (writer)

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Sarah Hopkins (born 1969) [1] is an Australian judge, criminal lawyer and novelist. She is a judge in the district court of New South Wales. [2] She was previously a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney and chairperson of Just Reinvest NSW, a not for profit organisation that works to reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the prison system.

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As a novelist, her best-known book is The Crimes of Billy Fish. [3]  It was Highly Commended in the  ABC Fiction Award  and shortlisted for the  Commonwealth Writers' Prize  in 2008. Her second novel Speak to Me was released in May 2010.

Her third novel, This Picture of You, was published by  Allen & Unwin  in 2014 and shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award for fiction. [4]

She is married to chef  Matt Moran  and they have two children.

Sarah is the grand daughter of Harry Hopkins, who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce and closest advisor on foreign policy during World War II.

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  1. ↑ Hopkins, Sarah (2014). This picture of you. Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin. ISBN   9781743319406.
  2. ↑ "Judges Contact Details". District Court NSW. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  3. ↑ Morgan, Joyce (24 March 2007). "Her cracker of a story". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Barbara Jefferis Award Winner 2016 | Australian Society of Authors". 1 November 2016. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2019.


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