Alison Croggon

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Alison Croggon (born 1962^{[citation needed]}) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Novella 2.3 Fantasy 2.4 Libretti 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[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

[edit] Poetry

• (1991) This is the Stone. Penguin Books Australia. ISBN 0140586660. 
• (1997) The Blue Gate. Black Pepper Press. ISBN 1876044187. 
• (2001) Mnemosyne. Wild Honey Press. ISBN 1903090318. 
• (2002) Attempts at Being. Salt Publishing. ISBN 1876857420.  excerpt
• (2003) The Common Flesh: Poems 1980-2002. Arc. ISBN 1900072726. 
• (2004) November Burning. Vagabond. 

[edit] Novella

• (1996) Navigatio. Black Pepper. ISBN 1876044098. 

[edit] Fantasy

• (2003) The Gift. Penguin. ISBN 0140293434.  (Published in the US as The Naming (Candlewick Press, ISBN 0763626392)
• (2004) The Riddle. Penguin. ISBN 1844289524. 
• (2006) The Crow. Penguin. ISBN 140630137X. 
• (2008) The Singing. Penguin. ISBN 9780670072385. 

[edit] Libretti

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

[edit] See also

• Pellinor

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Alison Croggon's Home Page
• Masthead Literary Arts Zine
• Theatre Notes Weblog
• Official Author Forum
• Recordings of poems at Poetry Arcive
• Interview

Persondata
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