Anna
Funder

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her books have won national and international prizes and been published in 25 countries. Her latest, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life was a New York Times Notable Book and won France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2024.

Anna’s first book Stasiland, about four people who resisted the Stasi regime, and others who worked for it, won the UK’s most prestigious prize for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize. Considered a classic in the English-speaking world, Stasiland is widely featured on school and university lists, and is being made into an international TV series. Anna’s novel All That I Am, a composite portrait of risk and courage among four of the earliest Jewish resisters to Hitler in London (including Ernst Toller) won the Miles Franklin, Australia’s highest prize for fiction and was a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Originally trained as an international human rights lawyer, Anna speaks fluent French and German. She lives in Sydney.