Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon (* 1962 in Transvaal , South Africa ) is an Australian writer and theater critic.

Croggon worked as a journalist for the Sydney Moring Herald newspaper . Her first poetry, This is the Stone , won the Anne Elder Award and the Mary Gilmore Prize . Her short story Navigatio was nominated for the Australian Vogel Literary Award in 1995 , and three novels from the fantasy saga Pellinor were published. The fourth volume was published in April 2009. She also writes for the online magazine Masthead and also writes theater reviews.

Alison Croggon also wrote the textbook for Michael Smetanin's opera Gauguin and The Burrow , which premiered at the Melbourne Festival and Perth Festival in 2000.

Works

Seals

• 1991 - This is the Stone
• 1997 - The Blue Gate
• 2001 - Mnemosyne
• 2002 - Attempts at Being. Salt Publishing
• 2003 - The Common Flesh: Poems 1980-2002
• 2004 - November Burning

stories

• 1996 - Navigatio

Text books

• 1995 - The Burrow
• 2000 - Gauguin (a synthetic life)
• 2014 - The Riders

Fantasy roman

Pellinor saga

• The Bone Queen , Walker Books 2016, ISBN 978-1-4063-6923-6 (Prehistory)
• The Gift , Penguin Books Australia 2002, ISBN 0-14-029343-4 ( The Naming in the USA)
  • Die Gabe , Bastei Lübbe 2007, Translator Michael Krug, ISBN 3-404-28514-X
• The Riddle , Penguin Books Australia 2004, ISBN 0-14-300213-9
  • Das Rätsel , Bastei Lübbe 2008, translator Michael Krug, ISBN 3-404-28515-8
• The Crow , Penguin Books Australia 2006, ISBN 0-14-300214-7
  • Die Krähe , Bastei Lübbe 2008, translator Michael Krug, ISBN 978-3-404-28519-8
• The Singing , Penguin Books Australia 2008, ISBN 978-0-670-07238-5
  • Das Baumlied , Bastei Lübbe 2009, Translator Michael Krug, ISBN 978-3-404-28528-0

Single track

• Black Spring , Walker Books 2013, ISBN 978-1-4063-3958-1
  • Land of death , Bastei Lübbe 2013, translator Michael Krug, ISBN 978-3-404-20708-4
• The River and the Book , Walker Books 2015, ISBN 978-1-4063-6417-0
• The Threads of Magic , Walker Books 2020, ISBN 978-1-4063-8474-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Alison Croggon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alison Croggon in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Alison Croggon in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Alison Croggon at Open Library
• The Official Website of Alison Croggon (English)
• The Books of Pellinor - Candlewick Press (English)
• Author's Blog (English)