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Alison Croggon (born 1962 〔(Biography ) (Author's website) Accessed: 21 May 2009.〕) 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.〔(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 all four novels of the fantasy genre series ''Pellinor'' have been published. She also edits the online writing magazine ''Masthead'' and writes theatre criticism. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Artist Profile: Alison Croggon )〕 In 2014, Iain Grandage's opera ''The Riders'', to Croggon's libretto based on Tim Winton's novel ''The Riders'', had its world premiere in Melbourne. Other poems by her have been set to music by Smetanin, Christine McCombe, Margaret Legge-Wilkinson and Andrée Greenwell. Her plays have been produced by the Melbourne Festival, The Red Shed Company (Adelaide) and ABC Radio. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alison Croggon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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