Diana Witchtel is an award winning writer and television critic with the New Zealand Listener. She received the 2016 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, enabling her to write Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father, about the impact of the Holocaust on her family. It won the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction and the E.H. McCormick Best First Book General Non-Fiction at the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.