Alison Croggon Explained

Alison Croggon
Birth Place: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]

Life and career

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]

Awards and nominations

Works

Poetry

Memoir

Novella

Fantasy novels

The Books of Pellinor

Standalone

Libretti

Plays

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alison Croggon . 2022-05-19 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . en.
  2. Web site: Croggon, Alison (1962–). live. 2021-04-25. Australian Poetry Library. https://web.archive.org/web/20111222043012/http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au:80/poets/croggon-alison . 22 December 2011.
  3. Web site: 2020-01-14 . Alison Croggon . 2022-05-19 . Chicago Review . en-US.
  4. Web site: Navigatio AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . 2022-05-19 . www.austlit.edu.au . en.
  5. Web site: Masthead . 2022-05-23 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . en.
  6. Web site: Alison Croggon . 2022-05-23 . AusStage.
  7. Web site: Artist Profile: Alison Croggon . OzArts Online . 17 January 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045448/http://www.ozarts.com.au/artists/artists_literature/alison_croggon_/ . 28 September 2007.
  8. Web site: Alison Croggon – 25 years interview . 2022-05-19 . Chamber Made Opera . en.
  9. Web site: 2013-10-29 . The Riders . 2022-05-19 . Victorian Opera . en.
  10. Web site: Alison Croggon . 2022-05-23 . Australian Music Centre.
  11. Web site: 2019-05-01 . Alison Croggon . 2023-05-03 . The Saturday Paper . en.
  12. Web site: Croggon, Alison 1962– . 2022-05-23 . Encyclopedia.com.
  13. Web site: 2023-02-08 . Duino Elegies . 2023-03-01 . State Library of NSW.

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