Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Anna Funder is an Australian author best known for Stasiland (2003), a non-fiction account of her encounters with East Germans and former Stasi officers in the years after reunification, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her debut novel All That I Am (2011) won the Miles Franklin Award and was an international bestseller. All That I Am is a fictionalised account of real events: the exile in London of a group of German anti-Nazi activists in the 1930s, centred on the figure of Ruth Becker and the playwright Ernst Toller. Read more →