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Anna Funder
Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. Her book, Stasiland, won the 2004 UK's Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for best non-fiction published in the English language. In 2012 her novel All That I Am, won Australia’s most prestigious fiction prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller on release in August 2023 and it was awarded France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2024. The book was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and named a Book of the Year by The Guardian, the Independent, the Economist, LitHub, the Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Times.
Funder’s father is Professor John Funder AC, an endocrinologist, and her mother was the late Dr Kate Funder, a psychologist.
Funder was educated in Paris and Melbourne; graduating Dux of Star of the Sea College in 1983. She studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universität of Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Funder holds a BA (Hons), English and German, an LLB (Hons), an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney.
Funder speaks French and German fluently.
Funder began her career as an international lawyer for the Australian Government, working on human rights, constitutional law and international treaty negotiations, before leaving Australia to live in Berlin and write full-time in the late 1990s.
Funder’s essays, feature articles and columns have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Paris Review, Best Australian Essays, Die Zeit in Germany and The Monthly. Anna wrote a column for the Norwegian publication Ny Tid, alternating with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya up until Politkovskaya’s assassination in 2006. Funder’s feature essay "Secret History" on the Nazi files held in the Arolsen Archives (Bad Arolsen), published in the Good Weekend and the Guardian, was awarded the ASA Maunder prize for journalism in 2007.
Anna Funder lived with her husband and three children in Brooklyn, New York for three and a half years, before returning to Australia in 2015.
Funder's first book Stasiland published in 2003 tells the stories of people who resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Stasiland has been translated into 16 languages.
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Anna Funder
Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. Her book, Stasiland, won the 2004 UK's Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for best non-fiction published in the English language. In 2012 her novel All That I Am, won Australia’s most prestigious fiction prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller on release in August 2023 and it was awarded France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2024. The book was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and named a Book of the Year by The Guardian, the Independent, the Economist, LitHub, the Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Times.
Funder’s father is Professor John Funder AC, an endocrinologist, and her mother was the late Dr Kate Funder, a psychologist.
Funder was educated in Paris and Melbourne; graduating Dux of Star of the Sea College in 1983. She studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universität of Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Funder holds a BA (Hons), English and German, an LLB (Hons), an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney.
Funder speaks French and German fluently.
Funder began her career as an international lawyer for the Australian Government, working on human rights, constitutional law and international treaty negotiations, before leaving Australia to live in Berlin and write full-time in the late 1990s.
Funder’s essays, feature articles and columns have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Paris Review, Best Australian Essays, Die Zeit in Germany and The Monthly. Anna wrote a column for the Norwegian publication Ny Tid, alternating with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya up until Politkovskaya’s assassination in 2006. Funder’s feature essay "Secret History" on the Nazi files held in the Arolsen Archives (Bad Arolsen), published in the Good Weekend and the Guardian, was awarded the ASA Maunder prize for journalism in 2007.
Anna Funder lived with her husband and three children in Brooklyn, New York for three and a half years, before returning to Australia in 2015.
Funder's first book Stasiland published in 2003 tells the stories of people who resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Stasiland has been translated into 16 languages.
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