Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. ^ "Navigatio | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories".Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. (Cadvan's Story: Prequel to the Books of Pellinor) (Published in the US as The Naming (Candlewick Press, ISBN 0-7636-2639-2)
ISBN 1-87.įantasy novels The Books of Pellinor 2023 shortlisted for NSW Premier's Translation Prize for Duino Elegies.2009 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing for her blog Theatre Notes.She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Daniel Keene and three children. Her plays have been produced by the Melbourne Festival, The Red Shed Company ( Adelaide) and ABC Radio.Īs of 2023, she is arts editor at The Saturday Paper. Other poems by Croggon have been set to music by Smetanin, Christine McCombe, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson, and Andrée Greenwell.
In 2014, Iain Grandage (composer) and Croggon (librettist) collaborated to present The Riders, based on Tim Winton's novel The Riders. Ĭroggon has also written libretti for Michael Smetanin's operas Gauguin: A Synthetic Life and The Burrow, which premiered respectively at the 2000 Melbourne Festival and Perth Festival, produced by ChamberMade. She also founded and edits the online writing magazine Masthead and writes theatre criticism. Four novels of the fantasy genre series Pellinor have been published. Her novella Navigatio was highly commended in the 1995 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Her first volume of poetry, This is the Stone, won the Anne Elder Award and the Mary Gilmore Prize. She has worked as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Life and career īorn in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne.
Croggon at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019Īlison Croggon (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.
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