Anna Funder: ‘I clearly didn’t know what I was doing … but always knew I was going to write’

Funder had no creative writing practice when she quit her job in international law for the Australian government to embark on Stasiland, her award-winning examination of the fallout of East Germany’s surveillance state, based on interviews with perpetrators and survivors. Published in 2002, it won t...

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