Anna Funder

Anna Funder (born 1966 in Melbourne) is an Australian writer, documentary filmmaker and lawyer.

Funder grew up in Melbourne and Paris. She worked as a lawyer and as a producer for radio and television. In the 1980s she studied in West Berlin and then worked at a TV station. In 1997, she was " Writer -in- Residence " at the Australia Centre at the University of Potsdam. She is married and has two daughters.

My non-fiction book about the GDR Stasi country first appeared in 2002 in Text Publishing in Melbourne and has been translated from English into several languages. The " Association for Civil rights and human dignity," but in 2004 procured an injunction against the author because of false accusations against the GBM.

Works

  • Stasi Country ( London: Granta 2003, ISBN 1862075808; German translation: Hamburg: European Publishing Company 2004, ISBN 3434505768 )
  • All That I Am, London 2011

Awards

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