When she grew up, the thought of becoming an author gradually faded away as she became a journalist. Croggon would go back and reread the novel several times until the paperback wore out. She loved it so much that she was up the whole night and the whole of the following day until she finished reading it. Her father who was a voracious reader had left a copy of “The Lord of the Rings” on the kitchen table and out of idle curiosity, she got busy reading. When they finally slept, she crept out of bed and headed to the kitchen. She blames it all on her parents that were fighting one night making it impossible to sleep. She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.Īs a ten-year-old, Alison Croggon’s biggest ambition was to pen a fantasy novel. At the 2015 Victorian Premier Literary Awards, she made the shortlist for the Drama Prize for Mayakovsky a libretto. She is also a music aficionado and won the Choral/Vocal Work of the Year in 2015 for an opera Libretti she penned alongside lain Grandage. Besides being a novelist, she has several collections of poems and has won several prizes and was a 2009 Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year. His single standing novel “The River and the Book” won the Environmental Writing for Children prize by the Wilderness Society while the NSW Premier Literary Awards had “Black Spring” in the shortlist for the Young People’s Writing Award.
“The Bone Queen” that she published in 2016 was a finalist for Best Young Adult Book at the Aurealis Award. Croggon’s novels, particularly those in the Books of Pellinor series, have won her many awards.
Apart from her flagship series, she is also the author of the Newport series, several single standing novels and several collections. Alison Croggon is a bestselling and award-winning novelist who is best known for young adult fantasy and particularly the “Books of Pellinor” series.
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