![]() ![]() 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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