Diane Armstrong
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BornDanuta Julia Boguslawski
1939 (age 85–86)
Kraków, Poland
1939 (age 85–86)
Kraków, Poland
OccupationNovelist, biographer, freelance journalist and travel writer
Notable worksMosaic
SpouseMichael Armstrong
Diane Armstrong | |
|---|---|
| Born | Danuta Julia Boguslawski 1939 (age 85–86) Kraków, Poland |
| Occupation | Novelist, biographer, freelance journalist and travel writer |
| Notable works | Mosaic |
| Spouse | Michael Armstrong |
| Children | 2, daughter and son |
| Website | |
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Diane Armstrong (born 1939) is an Australian novelist, biographer and freelance journalist and travel writer.
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.[1]
Awards and recognition
- National Biography Award, shortlisted for Mosaic[2]
- 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[3]
- Society of Women Writers, New South Wales, SWW Book Awards, winner for Nocturne, 2009[3]
