1. Anna Funder was born on 1966 and is an Australian author.
11 Facts About Anna Funder
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Anna Funder is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life and the novella The Girl With the Dogs.
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Anna Funder attended primary school in Melbourne and Paris; and later Star of the Sea College, Melbourne, graduating as Dux in 1983.
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Anna Funder studied at the University of Melbourne and the Freie Universitat of Berlin, and holds a BA and an LLB.
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Anna Funder holds an MA from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Creative Arts degree from the University of Technology Sydney.
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Anna Funder worked for the Australian Government as an international lawyer in human rights, constitutional law and treaty negotiation, before turning to writing full-time in the late 1990s.
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Anna Funder lived with her husband and three children in Brooklyn, New York, returning to Australia in 2015 after three and a half years.
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Anna Funder is an ambassador for the Norwegian-based International Cities of Refuge Network.
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Anna Funder is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Australian Privacy Foundation.
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Anna Funder is a member of the Folio Prize Academy and PEN International, in both the Australian and US chapters.
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Anna Funder has toured as a public speaker, and is a former German Academic Exchange Service, Australia Council for the Arts, NSW Writing and Rockefeller Foundation fellow.