Stasiland is being developed for the stage by The National Theatre in London. In June 2004 it was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize.

It was shortlisted for many awards in the UK and Australia, among them the Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, the Guardian First Book Award 2003, the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing) 2004, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2004, and the W.H. Stasiland has been published in sixty nine countries and translated into a dozen languages. Her debut novel, All That I Am, has won many prizes, including the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award. Giles MacDonogh wrote in The Guardian that the culture of informants and moral capitulations 'comes wonderfully to life in Funder's racy account'. Anna Funders international bestseller, Stasiland, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction. Reception Ĭhris Mitchell of Spike Magazine called it 'an essential insight into the totalitarian regime'. She used classified ads to reach former members of the Stasi and anti-Stasi organizations and interviewed them extensively. It tells the story of what it was like to work for the Stasi, and describes how those who did so now come to terms, or do not, with their pasts.įunder, an Australian, found that Germans often resorted to stereotypes in describing the Ossis, the German nickname for those who lived in East Germany, dismissing questions about civil resistance.

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