In 1935 two of them were found dead from poison in mysterious circumstances in a locked room in Bloomsbury.The book was called 'Superb' by The Spectator, 'strong and impressively humane' by the Times Literary Supplement), 'a beautiful ensemble novel of Graham Green’esque proportions' by Weekendavisen and 'an essential novel' by Colum McCann.

There, they continued the dangerous and illegal work of smuggling documents out of Goering's office, and giving them to Winston Churchill (a backbencher at the time) to try to alert the world to Hitler's plans for war. Heinemann Award.įunder's 2012 novel All That I Am tells the previously untold story of four German-Jewish anti-Hitler activists forced to flee to London.

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. Stasiland has been published in twenty countries and translated into seventeen languages it is on school and university reading lists around the world. Stasiland įunder'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. She lived with her husband and three children in Brooklyn, New York, returning to Australia after three and a half years. įunder speaks French and German fluently. In 2011 she was appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She has toured as a public speaker, and is a former DAAD (Berlin), Australia Council for the Arts, NSW Writing and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. 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. Īnna Funder's writing has received numerous accolades and awards.

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. She also has an MA from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Technology Sydney. She studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universität of Berlin, and holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). She is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am and the novella The Girl With the Dogs.įunder went to primary school in Melbourne and Paris she attended Star of the Sea College and graduated as Dux in 1983. BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) MA, DCA (Creative Writing)Īnna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian author.

All That I Am by Anna Funder