Anna Funder

Anna Funder's first book, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Text Publishing, Australia, 2002) is a lyrical and quirky examination of one of the world's most paranoid and secretive regimes. 

Anna Funder is the author of the acclaimed book, Stasiland, which is an investigation of East Germany’s feared secret police. Fluent in both German and French, Funder writes of her experiences in Berlin, both before and after the Wall came down.

As a record of travel, history and biography, Stasiland reads like a documentary novel. Funder was Writer-in-Residence at the Australian Centre in the University of Potsdam in 1997 and has won the Felix Meyer Creative Writing award, the Australian German Association Fellowship and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in the UK, 2004. Since publication in Australia by The Text Publishing Company in March 2002, the book has already been reprinted several times due to popular demand. Stasiland is published in 20 countries and is being adapted for the National Theatre in London and British television.

Contact: The Text Publishing Company
www.textpublishing.com.au