Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon (born 1962 Fact|date=August 2008) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.

Life

Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne. [ [http://members.dodo.net.au/~ghannah/croggon.html Biography] (Black Pepper Press) Accessed: 17 January 2007.] 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 [ [http://www.ozarts.com.au/artists/artists_literature/alison_croggon_/ Artist Profile: Alison Croggon] (OzArts Online) Accessed: 17 January 2007.] 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.

Works

Poetry

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Novella

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Fantasy

* (Published in the US as "The Naming" (Candlewick Press, ISBN 0763626392)
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Libretti

* (1995) "The Burrow", ISBN 0949697257
* (2000) "Gauguin (a synthetic life)"

ee also

*Pellinor

References

External links

* [http://www.alisoncroggon.com/ Alison Croggon's Home Page]
* [http://www.masthead.net.au/ Masthead Literary Arts Zine]
* [http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/ Theatre Notes Weblog]
* [http://www.sffworld.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43 Official Author Forum]
* [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=128 Recordings of poems] at Poetry Arcive
* [http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Alison%20Croggon.htm Interview]

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