Anna Funder

Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian writer who grew up in Melbourne. She studied creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney . She has worked as an international lawyer and in public relations for a German overseas television service in Berlin. Living and working in Berlin inspired her to write her first book, the non-fiction work Stasiland, which explores the machinations of the secret police known as the Stasi in the former German Democratic Republic. She was awarded the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2004.