Английская Википедия:Alison Croggon
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer 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
- 2009 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing for her blog Theatre Notes.[1]
- 2023 shortlisted for NSW Premier's Translation Prize for Duino Elegies.[13]
Works
Poetry
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Memoir
- Monsters: A reckoning. Scribe. 2021. Шаблон:ISBN
Novella
Fantasy novels
The Books of Pellinor
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Standalone
Libretti
- (1995) The Burrow, Шаблон:ISBN
- (2000) Gauguin (a synthetic life)
- (2014) The Riders
Plays
- Monologues for an Apocalypse (2000)
- Blue (2001)
- My Dearworthy Darling (2019)
References
External links
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- Theatre Notes Weblog
- Recordings of poemsШаблон:Dead link at Poetry Archive
- Interview
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