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Diane Armstrong (born 1939) is an Australian novelist, biographer and freelance journalist and travel writer. Early life and move to Australia Armstrong was born Danuta Julia Boguslawski in 1939 in Kraków, Poland, the family moving to Lwów soon after the Nazi invasion. She came to Australia on the SS Derna with her parents in November 1948, clearing customs in Melbourne, before disembarking in Brisbane. Six months later the family moving to Sydney. Her father was a dentist who had to re-qualify before he could practice in Australia. Awards and recognition National Biography Award, shortlisted for Mosaic Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, shortlisted for Mosaic New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for The Voyage of Their Lives Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, shortlisted for the Winter Journey, 2006 Society of Women Writers, New South Wales, SWW Book Awards, winner for Nocturne, 2009 Works Non-fiction Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations, Random House, Sydney, 1998 ISBN 0091837138; St Martin's Press, New York, 2001 ISBN 0312274556 The Voyage of Their Lives: The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers, Flamingo, Sydney, 2001 ISBN 9780732268268 Fiction Nocturne, Fourth Estate, London, 2008 ISBN 9780732284305 Winter Journey, Fourth Estate, Sydney, London & New York, 2005 ISBN 0732276942 Empire Day, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2011 ISBN 9780732290900; Fourth Estate, London, 2011 ISBN 9780732290900 The Collaborator, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2019 ISBN 9781489251664 Dancing with the Enemy, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2022 ISBN 9781867206545 References External links Official website. Discover the Diane Armstrong popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Diane Armstrong books.

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  • An Englishman Aboard synopsis, comments

    An Englishman Aboard

    Charles Timoney

    From the author of Pardon My French and A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi, this is the charming and hilariously funny story of one man's attempt to travel the entire length of the Seine by...

  • Empire Day synopsis, comments

    Empire Day

    Diane Armstrong

    From awardwinning author Diane Armstrong comes a dramatic and heartwarming novel which brilliantly evokes postwar Sydney. A heartwarming novel in the tradition of CLOUDStREEt and t...

  • The Collaborator synopsis, comments

    The Collaborator

    Diane Armstrong

    An enthralling story of heroism, passion, and betrayal based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest. For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwi...

  • The Secret World of Connie Starr synopsis, comments

    The Secret World of Connie Starr

    Robbi Neal

    A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and the...

  • Ella synopsis, comments

    Ella

    Diane Richards

    In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early yea...