Diane Armstrong is a child Holocaust survivor who arrived in
Australia from Poland in 1948. An award-winning journalist and
bestselling author, she has written seven previous books.
Her family memoir Mosaic: A chronicle of five generations, was
published in 1998 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's
Literary Award for Non-Fiction as well as the National Biography
Award. It was published in the United States and Canada, and was
selected as one of the year's best memoirs by Amazon.com. In 2001,
The Voyage of Their Life: The story of the SS Derna and its
passengers, was shortlisted in the New South Wales Premier's
Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Her first novel, Winter Journey, was published in 2004 and
shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It has been
published in the US, UK, Poland and Israel. Her second novel,
Nocturne, was published in 2008 and won the Society of Women
Writers Fiction Award. It was nominated for a major literary award
in Poland. Empire Day, a novel set in post-war Sydney, was
published in 2011, and The Collaborator, set in Hungary and Israel,
was published in Australia, the United States and the United
Kingdom in 2019. Dancing With the Enemy, set in Second World War
Jersey was published in 2022.
Diane has a son and daughter and three granddaughters. She lives in
Sydney.
Photo credit: Jonathan Armstrong
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