Alison Croggon | |
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 Croggon at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 62) Transvaal, South Africa |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genre | Fantasy, fiction, poetry, libretti |
Alison Croggon (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. [1]
Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne. [2] 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. [3] Her novella Navigatio was highly commended in the 1995 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. [4] Four novels of the fantasy genre series Pellinor have been published. She also founded and edits the online writing magazine Masthead [5] and writes theatre criticism. [6]
Croggon 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. [7] [8] In 2014, Iain Grandage (composer) and Croggon (librettist) collaborated to present The Riders, based on Tim Winton's novel The Riders . Its world premiere was in Melbourne. [9]
Other poems by Croggon have been set to music by Smetanin, Christine McCombe, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson, and Andrée Greenwell. [10] Her plays have been produced by the Melbourne Festival, The Red Shed Company (Adelaide) and ABC Radio.
As of 2023, she is arts editor at The Saturday Paper . [11]
She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Daniel Keene and three children. [12]
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