Zana Fraillon

Zana Fraillon (born 1981) is an Australian writer of fiction for children and young adults based in Melbourne, Australia. 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. The Bone Sparrow has been translated to stage and is set to premier in the York Theatre Royal, England, from 25 February 2022.

Biography
Fraillon was born in Melbourne and spent her early childhood in San Francisco. She was an avid reader as a child and grew up surrounded by books. She attributes a vision problem that was not diagnosed until she was seven as the reason she was more focused on books than the world around her. Fraillon studied history, spent a year teaching in China and returned to Melbourne to study and work as a teacher. Fraillon is from a family of writers and began writing fun picture books with her son. A friend encouraged her to submit these to a publisher and her writing career was born.

Awards

 * The Bone Sparrow
 * Winner of the Amnesty CILIP Honor Prize 2017
 * Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children 2017
 * Winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2017
 * International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Australian Honour Book 2018
 * Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Honour Book 2017 - Older Readers
 * Shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2017
 * Shortlisted for a CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017
 * Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2017
 * Shortlisted in the Queensland Literary Awards 2017
 * Shortlisted in the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2016
 * Shortlisted in the Inky Awards 2017
 * The Ones that Disappeared
 * Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature 2018
 * A Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book 2018
 * Shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2018
 * Nominated for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie Medal
 * Shortlisted for the UK CrimeFest Award - Best Crime Novel for Young Adults
 * Wisp
 * Longlisted in the 2020 Kate Greenaway Award
 * The Lost Soul Atlas
 * Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal
 * Shortlisted for the 2021 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
 * Winner, 2020 Aurealis Award for best children's fiction
 * The Raven's Song
 * Shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers
 * Shortlisted for the 2023 WA Premier's Prize for Children's Book of the Year
 * The Way of Dog
 * Shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers
 * Shortlisted for the 2023 Children's Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards