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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 All That I Am
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'Anna Funder's utterly compelling first novel All That I Am is about the heroic and largely tragic fate of a small group of left-wing German activists who opposed the rise of Hitler. It centres on two real people: the playwright Ernst Toller (famously eulogized by his friend W H Auden), and one of his associates, Ruth Koplowitz. Ruth was also a friend of Toller, and came to live in Sydney after WW2, where Anna got to know her well in later life. Their lives were tied together by the charismatic, passionate Dora - All That I Am vividly, passionately and irresistibly brings back to life their struggles, their hopes, their fears and their fates.'

Source: Penguin News, 6 October 2010
Sighted: 11/10/2010

Exhibitions

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    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hamish Hamilton , 2011 .
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      Extent: 369p.
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      • Publication date: June 2011.
      ISBN: 9780062077585 (ebk.), 9780062077578 (trade pbk.), 9781926428338 (pbk.), 9780062077561 (hbk.)
    • London,
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      Extent: 370p.
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      • Publication date 15 Sep 2011
      ISBN: 9780670920396 (hbk.)
    • Toronto, Ontario,
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      Harper Perennial ,
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      Extent: 372p.p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
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      • Published 2 July 2012.
      ISBN: 9780062077578, 0062077570
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 369p.p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      ISBN: 9780143567516, 0143567519
    • London,
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      Extent: 384p.p.
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      • Published 10 May 2012.
      ISBN: 9780670920426
    • Toronto, Ontario,
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      Harper Perennial ,
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      Extent: 366p.p.
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      • Published 22 January 2013.
      ISBN: 9781443406116, 1443406112
Alternative title: Al wat ik ben
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
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      Contact ,
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      Extent: 457p.p.
      ISBN: 9789025436360, 9025436366
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      Atlas Contact ,
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      Extent: 457p.p.
      ISBN: 9789020413618, 9020413619

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Australian Writers Anna Funder and David Sornig Cross Berlin Borders Gay Lynch , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Border Crossings 2016; (p. 153-166)

'To understand their characters' border crossings - historical, transnational, personal, physical and generic - Australian writers, Anna Funder and David Sornig researched their Berlin settings in situ, in literature and through writing praxis. Berlin crossings can be mapped from East to West and ideologically from left to right, through traumatic national history, biographies and authorial backstories.' (Introduction)

All That We Are Not Daniel Brandl-Beck , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 10 no. 1 2013; (p. 217-219)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
Telling the Truth William Yeoman , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 26 January 2013; (p. 10-11)
The Brain Feign Ben Etherington , 2013- single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , January 2013; The Australian Face : Essays from the Sydney Review of Books 2017; (p. 3-17)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
No Grey Areas in Top Reads Deborah Bogle , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 January 2013; (p. 29)
Toxic Politics and the Path to Despair James Ley , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 26-27)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
Imagination as an Act of Compassion Geordie Williamson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 August 2011; (p. 18-19)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
Untitled David Gaunt , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 91 no. 2 2011; (p. 28)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
Well Read Deborah Bogle , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 September 2011; (p. 29)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
Bearing Witness Jo Case , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 11)

— Review of All That I Am Anna Funder , 2011 single work novel
Freedom To Make More Corrections Jason Steger , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 9 October 2010; (p. 29)
A column canvassing current literary news including a report on Ben Ball's successful bid, on behalf of Penguin, to publish Anna Funder's novel All That I Am.
Auction for Anna 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2010-2011 vol. 90 no. 5 2010; (p. 12)
Facts and Fiction for Funder Stephen Romei , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 August 2011; (p. 3)
Anna Funder Catherine Keenan , 2011 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 September 2011; (p. 32-33)
Author Dwells on Courage in German Hells Fran Metcalf , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 - 4 September 2011; (p. 16)
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