Anna Funder
Born: 01-01-1966
Anna Funder is an acclaimed Australian author and journalist, best known for her compelling narrative nonfiction and fiction works. She achieved international recognition with "Stasiland," which explores life in East Germany under the Stasi regime. Funder's keen insights and meticulous research have earned her numerous awards, including the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her literary contributions continue to highlight historical and contemporary issues with depth and sensitivity.
Book summaries for books written by Anna Funder
Quotes
History, as the saying goes, is just one damned thing after another.
We are all creatures of history, and history is a mess.
You can't find the way forward. But you can walk it.
I have always thought that the truth is not worth very much. It is only in the search for it that you find anything.
There is something about seeing something that is beyond language. It is something that is not in any language.
I think people are formed by the events that happen to them, sometimes in a terrible way.
I am not a hero, I am something else entirely. I am not a hero, I am a witness.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.
I am not made of the stuff most people are. I am made of stronger, darker, stranger stuff.
It’s always easier to hate than to love.
It’s not enough to have talent; you also have to be Hungarian.
The only thing worth anything is love, whether it’s for a man, a woman, a country, a principle, whatever.