Donald J. Watt

Donald Joseph Watt (born 1918) is an Australian ex-serviceman and the author of a literary hoax, a fictitious Holocaust memoir entitled Stoker : the story of an Australian soldier who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster. Only the disclosure of Watt's fabrications altered the status of the book which was initially praised by various Jewish organizations as the most important work written in Australia.

Donald J. Watt

Donald Joseph Watt (born 1918) is an Australian ex-serviceman and the author of a literary hoax, a fictitious Holocaust memoir entitled Stoker : the story of an Australian soldier who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster. Only the disclosure of Watt's fabrications altered the status of the book which was initially praised by various Jewish organizations as the most important work written in Australia.