Anna Funder
| Anna Funder | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 Melbourne |
| Residence | Sydney |
| Occupation | Writer, lawyer, documentary film maker |
| Parents | John Funder |
Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian writer who grew up in Melbourne. She studied creative writing at the University of Melbourne, also later studying at the Free University of Berlin as the recipient in 1994 of a DAAD Scholarship (German Government Academic Exchange Service Award). In 1995 after the Berlin Wall came down she applied for and received a fellowship from the Australia German Association to return to Germany.[1]
Funder has worked as an international lawyer and in public relations for a German overseas television service in Berlin. Living and working in Berlin inspired her to write her first book, the non-fiction work Stasiland, which explores the machinations of the secret police known as the Stasi in the former German Democratic Republic. She was awarded the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2004.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Non-fiction
- Funder, Anna (2003). Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall. London: Granta. ISBN 9781862076556. OCLC 55891480.
[edit] Fiction
- Funder, Anna (2011). All That I Am. London: Penguin. ISBN 9781926428338.
[edit] Television
- co-writer for the TV show – Tripping Over, (October 2006) directed by Tony Tilse.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Australia-Germany Fellowship Past winners". Australian German Association Inc.. http://www.aga.org.au/fellowship/. Retrieved 14 July 2007.
- ^ "TV-series – Tripping Over". IMDb Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775403/. Retrieved 14 July 2007.
[edit] References
- "Stasiland by Anna Funder", Guardian Unlimited, Thursday 6 November 2003.
- "Debut author wins Johnson prize", BBC News, Tuesday, 15 June 2004
- ABC Critical Mass biography: Anna Funder ABC Critical Mass, 2003
- Life Behind the Wall Now and Then Lancette Journal, review by Alidë Kohlhaas April 2004
- Fellowship Report: Anna Funder Australian German Association 1995
- Byrnes, Sholto; Tonkin, Boyd (18 June 2004). "Anna Funder: Inside the real Room 101". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/anna-funder-inside-the-real-room-101-732525.html. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
[edit] External links
- Anna Funder official website
- Video: Anna Funder lecture on 'Courage' Sydney PEN 3 Voices Project, Nov 2008, on SlowTV
- Podcast of Anna Funder discussing “On East Germany” at the Shanghai International Literary Festival
- The Guardian review of All That I Am
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