Winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2017.Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children 2017.

Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honor Prize 2017.

The Raven's Song written with Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin, Aus/NZ, 2022) (Old Barn Books, UK, 2022).

The Curiosities Lothian Children's Books 2021.

The Lost Soul Atlas Lothian Children's Books 2020.

Wisp - A Story of Hope Lothian Children's Books 2018.

The Ones That Disappeared Hachette Children's Group 2017.

The Bone Sparrow Lothian Children's Books 2016.

No Stars to Wish On Allen & Unwin 2014.

Monstrum House Hardie Grant Egmont 2012.

When No One's Looking On the Farm Hardie Grant Egmont 2012.

When No One's Looking At the Zoo Hardie Grant Egmont 2009.

A friend encouraged her to submit these to a publisher and her writing career was born. Fraillon is from a family of writers and began writing fun picture books with her son. Fraillon studied history, spent a year teaching in China and returned to Melbourne to study and work as a teacher. She attributes a vision problem that was not diagnosed until she was seven as the reason she was more focussed on books than the world around her. She was an avid reader as a child and grew up surrounded by books. Biography įraillon was born in Melbourne and spent her early childhood in San Francisco. The Bone Sparrow has been translated to stage and is set to premier in the York Theatre Royal, York, UK, from 25 February 2022. Fraillon is known for allowing young readers to examine human rights abuses within fiction and in 2017 she won an Amnesty CILIP Honour for her book The Bone Sparrow which highlights the plight of the Rohingya people. Zana Fraillon (born 1981) is an Australian writer of fiction for children and young adults based in Melbourne, Australia.

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