Zana Fraillon (she/they) is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning author of books for children and young adults.
Zana's books have won the Amnesty CILIP Honour Award, the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Readers, the Readings YA Book Prize, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the CBCA Honour Book Award, and her book The Bone Sparrow was chosen as the biennial book to represent Australia for the International Board on Books for Young People. Her books have also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Prime Minister's Literary Award; the INKY Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Queensland Literary Award, the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, the UK Crime Fest Award and the Aurealis Awards.
Zana was born and currently lives in Melbourne/Naarm, but spent her early childhood in San Francisco. She has degrees in history and teaching and is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.
The Gargoyle Teachers Resources
All I want for Christmas (for the kids)
The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
Zana Fraillon, author of THE BONE SPARROW, wins at ABIA Awards 2017
ABIA Awards 2017 Shortlist
ABIA Awards 2017 Longlist
Children’s Book Council of Australia Notables 2017
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017
In-house review ... The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
5 Minutes with ... Zana Fraillon
The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
Zana Fraillon, author of THE BONE SPARROW, wins at ABIA Awards 2017
The Gargoyle Teachers Resources
All I want for Christmas (for the kids)
ABIA Awards 2017 Shortlist
ABIA Awards 2017 Longlist
Children’s Book Council of Australia Notables 2017
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017
In-house review ... The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
5 Minutes with ... Zana Fraillon