Anna Funder

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Anna Funder
DCA (Creative Writing)
OccupationWriter
SpouseCraig Allchin
Children3
Parent(s)Kathleen Funder, John Funder

Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author. She is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am, the novella The Girl With the Dogs and Wifedom (a book about George Orwell's first wife, Eileen Blair).

Life

Funder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris; she attended

Doctor of Creative Arts degree from the University of Technology Sydney. 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.[2]

Anna Funder's writing has received numerous accolades and awards. Her essays, feature articles and columns have appeared in numerous publications, such as

Australia Council for the Arts, NSW Writing and Rockefeller Foundation
fellow.

In 2011 she was appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council.[4]

Funder speaks French and German fluently.[5] She lived with her husband and three children in Brooklyn, New York, returning to Australia after three and a half years.[6][7]

Stasiland

Funder's Stasiland tells stories of people who resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Stasiland has been translated into 16 languages.[8]

Stasiland won the 2004

Samuel Johnson Prize and was also the finalist for the Age Book of the Year Awards, Guardian First Book Award, Queensland Premier's Literary Award, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing), Index Freedom of Expression Awards and the W.H. Heinemann Award.[citation needed
]

All That I Am

Funder's 2012 novel

Times Literary Supplement), "a beautiful ensemble novel of Graham Green’esque proportions" by Weekendavisen and "an essential novel" by Colum McCann.[9][failed verification
]

The novel was BBC Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime in the UK, and The Times (London) Book of the Month for May 2012.[citation needed]

All That I Am won the following awards:

It was a finalist for the[citation needed]

Human rights activities

Funder is an ambassador for the Norwegian-based International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN).[12] ICORN is a global network of cities offering safe havens for persecuted writers. She is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Australian Privacy Foundation.[13]

Funder is a member of the Folio Prize Academy and PEN International, both its Australian and US chapters. In 2007 she was chosen to deliver a PEN 3 Writers Lecture.[14]

Public appearances and named lectures

Funder's essays, articles and columns have appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Ny Tid, and have been selected for Best Australian Essays. Her feature "Secret History", which appeared in The Guardian and in

Nazi death camps held in obscurity by German authorities, won the 2007 ASA Maunder Award for Journalism.[15]

Funder has delivered numerous named lectures, including the:

Awards and honours

Full list of awards:[citation needed]

Full list of nominations:[citation needed]

  • The Age Book of the Year Awards
  • The Guardian First Book Award
  • Queensland Premier's Literary Award
  • Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing)
  • Index Freedom of Expression Awards
  • W. H. Heinemann Award
  • IMPAC Award
  • Commonwealth Book Prize
  • The Prime Minister's Literary Award
  • ALS Gold Medal
  • Adelaide Festival Fiction Prize
  • Victorian Premiers Literary Award
  • The Australian Society of Authors Asher Literary Award
  • Nonfiction Indie Book Award, 2024[21]
  • Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 for Wifedom[22]

Bibliography

  • Funder, Anna (2003).
    OCLC 55891480
    .
  • ISBN 978-1-926428-33-8
    .
  • The Girl with the Dogs. Australia: Penguin. 2015.
    ISBN 978-0-14357-350-0
    .
  • Wifedom – Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life.
    ISBN 9780143787112; about Eileen Blair, George Orwell
    's first wife.

References

  1. ^ "Dux of the College". Starmelb.catholic.edu.au. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Anna Funder – About". Annafunder.com. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Results for: anna funder". The Monthly. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Literature assessment meeting report – December 2011". Australia Council for the Arts. December 2011. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Meet the Panellists of Critical Mass – 4.00pm – 4.30pm Sundays on ABC TV". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Free Agent". The Monthly. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Anna Funder on life in the US: 'I underestimated what a radically different culture it has'". The Guardian. 29 September 2015.
  8. ^ Kennan, ByCatherine (3 September 2011). "Celebrating courage". Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Anna Funder". Annafunder.com. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  10. ^ a b "2012 Winner: Anna Funder", Miles Franklin Literary Award
  11. ^ 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award
  12. ^ "ICORN international cities of refuge network". Icorn.org. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Advisory Panel". Australian Privacy Foundation. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  14. ^ "Anna Funder on courage (p2): Sydney PEN 3 Voices Project". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  15. ^ "Secret history". the Guardian. 15 June 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Hamsters with Plasmas" (PDF). Libertyvictoria.org. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  17. ^ "Watch Anna Funder on courage: Sydney PEN 3 Voices Project – SlowTV Episodes – How To Videos – Blip". Blip.tv. 18 November 2008. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  18. ^ "Dymphna Clark Lecture by Anna Funder – Events at The University of Melbourne". Events.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  19. ^ "Sydney's Top 100 Most Influential People". The Sydney Morning Herald – The Sydney Magazine. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  20. ^ "Women of Style – Women of Style Winners 2013". InStyle. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  21. ^ "Indie Book Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  22. ^ Creamer, Ella (15 February 2024). "Guardian writer and Observer critic longlisted for inaugural Women's prize for nonfiction". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2024.

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