An Evening with Anna Funder
Thinkable and UNSW Centre for Ideas present: An Evening with Anna Funder.
Anna was born in Melbourne and spent her early childhood in San Francisco and Paris. She studied English literature, German and law in Melbourne and West Berlin. In the 1990s, she served as Counsel in International and Human Rights law for the Australian Government before moving to Berlin to write full-time.
Anna is a committed advocate for human rights, serving as an Ambassador for the International Cities of Refuge Network. Her work has earned global acclaim, including the Samuel Johnson (Baillie Gifford) Prize for Stasiland and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for All That I Am. A University of Technology Sydney Luminary and former member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, Funder was named one of the ‘Top 100 People of Influence’ by the Sydney Morning Herald.
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UNSW Centre for Ideas
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