Table of Contents

Author's Note

Map of Eastern Europe

1 The Lost Childhood

2 Lovers and Friends

3 In Hiding

4 Under Siege

5 Displaced Persons

6 The Offshore Island

7 Brave New World

8 Finding the Centre

9 Deserts and Palaces

10 The Studio Door

11 The Public Self

12 The Private Self

13 Echoes and Hauntings

14 Masks and Mirrors

15 The Last Witness

Afterword

Appendices

I Selected Solo Shows

II Prizes and Distinctions

III Representation

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Illustration credits

Index

About the Author

Melbourne writer Brenda Niall has had a distinguished academic career at Monash University where she was Reader (Associate Professor) in the English Department. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She now writes fulltime and has won a host of literary prizes, including the National Book Council (Banjo) award and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Biography award for Martin Boyd: a Life; the Victorian Premier's award and the Australian Unity award for her biography of pioneer painter Georgiana McCrae; and the Queensland and Victorian Premiers' awards for The Boyds. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia (AO).