- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE6258
Giese, Diana
(1947 – )- Born 1 January, 1947
- Occupation Author, Consultant, Historian
Summary
Diana Giese has worked in the publishing industry since the 1970s, in London and Sydney, for companies such as Macmillan, HarperEducational and Oxford University Press. She has written six books and collaborated with writers and publishers to produce dozens more. She worked as a literary journalist for The Australian, The Canberra Times, ABC Radio and various journals, and served on writers’ festival and prize committees. She now runs her own publishing consultancy.
In her projects with Australia’s diverse communities, she has worked with them and with museums, libraries and archives countrywide. She has produced a large number of interviews for the National Library of Australia. Her public programs include Travel at Home cultural tours (2001-2016) and Reclaiming the Past (1996-2001). This work has produced exhibitions, archives, books, CDs and Web material.
Archival resources
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Collection
- State Library of New South Wales
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National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Australian publishing oral history project [sound recording] / interviewer, Diana Giese
- Khmer Community in Australia oral history project [sound recording] / interviewer, Diana Giese
- Annette Shun Wah interviewed by Diana Giese for the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project [sound recording]
- Helen Sham-Ho interviewed by Diana Giese in the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project [sound recording]
- Helene Chung Martin, journalist and author, interviewed by Diana Giese in the Chinese Australian Oral History Partnership collection [sound recording]