Anna Funder

Australian writer

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    Born 1966
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-18

Anna Funder is an Australian author. Her book, Stasiland, won the 2004 UK's Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in the English language. In 2012 her novel All That I Am, won Australia’s most prestigious fiction prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller on release in August 2023 and it was awarded France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger 2024. The book was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and named a Book of the Year by The Guardian, the Independent, the Economist, LitHub, the Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Times.

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