Anna Funder

18 Podcast Episodes

Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy

Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy

Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland (2002) and All That I Am (2012). Her third major wo... Read more

13 Aug 2023

35mins

Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

All That I Am and Stasiland author Anna Funder's new book Wifedom rewrites the life of her literary hero George Orwell t... Read more

4 Aug 2023

52mins

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Anna Funder: on feminism, marriage and Wifedom

Anna Funder: on feminism, marriage and Wifedom

Anna Funder talks to Cheryl Akle about what it means to be a wife, feminism, and how George Orwell's wife, Eileen O’Shau... Read more

16 Jul 2023

32mins

Anna Funder is Her Own Wife

Anna Funder is Her Own Wife

Anna Funder has a habit of writing about humans in extremis: under the Stasi, then the Nazis, and now, she's taken on th... Read more

12 Jul 2023

28mins

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Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns

Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns

Aboriginal, Chinese-Malaysian and Muslim writer and academic Eugenia Flynn co-hosts the Bookshelf this week with Kate Ev... Read more

7 Jul 2023

54mins

Anna Funder on the ‘invisible labour’ behind George Orwell’s writing

Anna Funder on the ‘invisible labour’ behind George Orwell’s writing

A new Australian book is shedding new light on how George Orwell’s wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy helped write some of his mo... Read more

3 Jul 2023

27mins

The Director’s Chair: Anna Funder on Stasiland, the US, Australia and whether writers are like spies

The Director’s Chair: Anna Funder on Stasiland, the US, Australia and whether writers are like spies

In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with award-winning author Anna Funder. Anna is widely ... Read more

17 May 2021

33mins

Recently Read 53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder

Recently Read 53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder

A compelling book on a difficult subject, telling the stories of people who lived behind the Berlin Wall and lived in fe... Read more

11 Aug 2020

2mins

53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder

53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder

A compelling book on a difficult subject, telling the stories of people who lived behind the Berlin Wall and lived in fe... Read more

11 Aug 2020

2mins

Anna Funder on the magic curtain of language, her life in writing, 'Stasiland' thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell and what she’s working on now.

Anna Funder on the magic curtain of language, her life in writing, 'Stasiland' thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell and what she’s working on now.

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and celebrated writers. Her multi-award winning novel All That I Am was... Read more

24 Jun 2020

52mins

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