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About the Author
DIANA RUZZENE GROLLO was born
in Mure, a village 30km north of Venice, in 1948, as Italy and
the Veneto region in particular, began to rebuild their social
and economic base in the aftermath of the devastation of the
Second World War which had hit the Veneto population
particularly hard.
Diana was the fourth of six
children born to Maria and Giovanni Ruzzene, a survivor of the
ill-fated Italian army campaign in Russia. She was delivered by
the district's midwife, in her parent's snow covered, brick
paved cottage on a cold winter night under the light of an oil
lantern.
Diana, her mother and her two
sisters and three brothers were reunited with father Giovanni in
Melbourne in 1955 where Giovanni had migrated four years
earlier. After a happy, though economically deprived childhood
in Italy, the author lived through the toughest years of Italian
immigration in Australia from primary school to adulthood. In
1970 Diana married Rino Grollo. They had four children. In 1993
Diana graduated, majoring in History, from La Trobe University.
It was during her time at University as a mature student, that
the idea of her first book began taking shape.
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