Anna Funder

Anna Funder was born in Australia and spent much of her childhood in Paris. She later studied at Freie University in Berlin, and received an MA from the University of Melbourne. She trained as a human rights lawyer, and worked for the Australian government throughout the 1980s and 90s, after which she turned to writing full-time. Her first book, Stasiland (2003) was awarded the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, the world’s biggest monetary award for nonfiction writing in the English language, and her follow-up, the novel All That I Am (2011), was awarded the Miles Franklin Prize, the most prestigious award Australia offers.