Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.

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[edit] Life

Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne.[1] She has worked as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her first volume of poetry, This is the Stone, won the Anne Elder Award and the Mary Gilmore Prize. Her novella Navigatio was recommended in the 1995 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and three novels of the fantasy genera series Pellinor have been published with a fourth scheduled for 2008. She also edits the online writing magazine Masthead and writes theatre criticism.

Croggon has also written libretti for Michael Smetanin's operas Gauguin and The Burrow which premiered respectively at the 2000, Melbourne Festival and Perth Festival, produced by ChamberMade[2] Other poems by her have been set to music by Smetanin, Christine McCombe, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson and Andreé Greenwell. Her plays have been produced by the Melbourne Festival, The Red Shed Company (Adelaide) and ABC Radio.

[edit] Works

Poetry

Novella

Fantasy.

  • The Gift. (Penguin, 2003)
  • The Riddle. (Penguin, 2004)
  • The Crow. (Penguin, 2006)

Libretti

  • The Burrow, (1995)
  • Gauguin (a synthetic life), (2000)

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Biography (Black Pepper Press) Accessed: January 17, 2007.
  2. ^ Artist Profile: Alison Croggon (OzArts Online) Accessed: January 17, 2007.


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NAME Croggon, Alison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Transvaal, South Africa
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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