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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
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Australian Writers Anna Funder and David Sornig Cross Berlin Borders
2016
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— 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)
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All That We Are Not
2013
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review
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 10 no. 1 2013; (p. 217-219)
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel -
Telling the Truth
2013
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 26 January 2013; (p. 10-11) -
The Brain Feign
2013-
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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 2011 single work novel -
No Grey Areas in Top Reads
2013
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 January 2013; (p. 29)
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Toxic Politics and the Path to Despair
2011
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— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 26-27)
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel -
Imagination as an Act of Compassion
2011
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 August 2011; (p. 18-19)
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
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review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 91 no. 2 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel -
Well Read
2011
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 September 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel -
Bearing Witness
2011
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 11)
— Review of All That I Am 2011 single work novel -
Freedom To Make More Corrections
2010
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— 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
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2010-2011 vol. 90 no. 5 2010; (p. 12) -
Facts and Fiction for Funder
2011
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— Appears in: The Australian , 26 August 2011; (p. 3) -
Anna Funder
2011
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 September 2011; (p. 32-33) -
Author Dwells on Courage in German Hells
2011
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column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 - 4 September 2011; (p. 16)
Awards
- 2013 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Award for New Writing
- 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Fiction Book Award
- 2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
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