Anna Funder
All That I Am. Anna Funder In Conversation
Anna Funder
Anna Funder is the author of the bestselling Stasiland, an examination of life in communist East Germany and the winner of the 2004 Samuel...
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Court Order
Anna Funder
My friend Sylvie-Anne loves everything about playing netball for the Pearlers, except that their uniform, a skirted bodysuit in white and...
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Not My Type
Anna Funder
I once saw, on a wall at the Stasi Law School in Potsdam, this dissertation topic: ‘On the Probable Causes of the Psychological Pathology...
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Means of Production
Anna Funder
Speaking before going onstage at the Sixth Annual New York Burlesque Festival in 2008, Angie Pontani tried to encapsulate her genre of...
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Not Rocket Science
Anna Funder
It’s Sunday, 13 June 2010. My phone beeps an SMS: “Successful separation of space return capsule from mothership. Re-entry at 11.21 pm SA...
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Confidence Trick
Anna Funder
It’s dusk at the crossroads in inner Sydney. Tom Wright, associate director of the Sydney Theatre Company, and I are returning children...
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Heaven, Hell and Limbo
Anna Funder
The first time I took my new baby out I put him in a sling and walked to the local shops, where I ran into a friend with two Papuan artists...
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Bad Hotel
Anna Funder
At dusk the bats fly silently over our house in inner Sydney. Unlike birds, which coast through the air without apparent thought or work,...
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Anna Funder
Not long ago I stood at the edge of my local pool in inner Sydney looking forward to getting a load off my feet – not that I had seen them...
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Anna Funder on courage: Sydney PEN 3 Voices Project
Anna Funder
Following an introduction by Tom Keneally, Anna Funder delivers the third public lecture in the 2008 series of Sydney PEN Voices: The 3...
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