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Anna Funder is one of Australia's most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her signature works tell true stories of courage, resistance, conscience and love, illuminating the human condition in times of tyranny and surveillance. She explores the space between the conscience and the soul and uncovers everyday heroes buried by history. In her world - wit survives and inhumanity is often undermined by its ironies.
Funder's internationally bestselling Stasiland and All That I Am illuminate the human condition in times of tyranny through true stories of courage, conscience and love. Stasiland won the UK's prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize. All That I Am won the Miles Franklin and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, hailed as a masterpiece and a spellbinding achievement, was a New York Times Notable Book and awarded France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
Anna was born in Melbourne and spent her early childhood in San Francisco and Paris, as her father completed his post-doctoral work in medicine, and her mother plotted a career in psychology while looking after three small children.
Anna studied English literature, German and law in Melbourne and West Berlin. In the 1990's she was Counsel in International and Human Rights law for the Australian Government before leaving to live in Berlin and write full-time. She has continued her commitment to human rights as an Ambassador for the International Cities of Refuge Network which offers safe havens around the world to writers persecuted in their own countries.
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