Biography

SUSANNA DE VRIES is an international author and former lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. She writes full time but gives occasional study days as part of the 'Travel and Destinations' programme run by the Continuing Education Dept of the University of Queensland. She also lectures to branches of the Australian Fine and Decorative Art Society.

Of Anglo-Irish extraction, Susanna’s biological father was a distinguished author. Adopted at birth and raised by loving adoptive parents, during World War 2,  Susanna’s home was bombed and she and her mother were homeless and spent years living with relatives so reading and writing  became a source of comfort. At nine she was sent to boarding school at Ascot and later studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris and won a scholarship to study Art History in Madrid. She speaks fluent Spanish and French and some German and has lived and worked in London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Florence, Barcelona and Sydney. She now lives in Brisbane and enjoys visits from children and grand- children.

Susanna’s fourteen books have won her literary awards in Ireland and Britain and an Order of Australia for services to literature and a Winston Churchill Fellowship. She has twice been short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction awards and is currently working on a book on royal women.

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