One Perfect Day tells the story of Veronica Csosz who, along with 200,000 other Hungarians, left her possessions and loved ones behind and fled Hungary in the days after 4 November 1956 when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest and crushed the Uprising. Veronica arrived in Australia as a refugee in 1957.
Sandy Watson is a writer, author, and communication researcher located in Trentham, Victoria.
She is the author of One Perfect Day, a memoir about Melbourne woman Veronika Csosz's escape from Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. She is also the creator, with photographer Susan Gordon-Brown, of 56 Faces, a photographic exhibition and oral history of Hungarians who sought refuge in Victoria after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
Sandy has been awarded for her writing on the experiences of Hungarian refugees.
