Anna Funder

Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am.

Life

Funder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris; she attended Star of the Sea College High School and graduated as Dux in 1983. She studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universität of Berlin, and holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). She also has a MA from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology. Funder worked for the Australian Government as an international lawyer in human rights, constitutional law and treaty negotiation, before turning to writing full-time in the late 1990s.

Anna Funder’s writing has received numerous accolades and awards. Her essays, feature articles and columns have appeared in numerous publications, such as the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, Best Australian Essays and The Monthly. She has toured as a public speaker, and is a former DAAD (Berlin), Australia Council, NSW Writing and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.