Anna Funder
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Anna Funder (* 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 on radio and television. In the 1980s she studied in West Berlin and then worked for a television station. In 1997 she was "Writer-in-Residence" at the Australia Center of the University of Potsdam . She is married and has two daughters.
Your non-fiction book Stasiland about the GDR was first published in 2002 by Text Publishing in Melbourne and has been translated from English into several languages. The association Society for the Protection of Citizenship and Human Dignity obtained an injunction shortly after the book was published in 2004, the reason being controversial descriptions of the GBM's dealings with critics. The book appeared again without the objectionable passages.
Works
- 2003 Stasiland (interview collection)
- Stasiland, German by Harald Riemann; Hamburg: European Publishing House 2004. ISBN 3-434-50576-8
- 2011 All That I Am (novel)
- Everything that I am, German by Reinhild Böhnke ; Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 2014. ISBN 978-3-10-021511-6
Awards
- 2004: Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction (Great Britain)
- 2012: Miles Franklin Award for All That I Am
Web links
- Literature by and about Anna Funder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Several newspaper articles on Staziland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars-Broder Keil: "Nobody wants to appear as a bad boy in history" . In: The world . August 8, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funder, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer, documentary filmmaker and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |