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  • I was just wondering if you've read a book called 'Stasiland', written by Anna Funder - I actually wrote a blog about it not so long ago, funnily enough named 'Stasiland'.

    Carrying Jackie's Torch by Steve Jacobson ricklibrarian 2007

  • In "Stasiland," writer Anna Funder talks to former members of the Stasi -- the communist East German security apparatus -- and to the people whose lives they destroyed.

    Salon 2009

  • Meanwhile Anna Funder – the highly acclaimed author of 2003's Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, which was shortlisted for the Guardian first book award – is back at last, after a seven-year absence, this time with All That I Am, a novel about anti-fascist activists risking their lives to warn the world about Hitler, said to be based very closely on a true story.

    Frankfurt book fair finds publishers in buoyant mood Benedicte Page 2010

  • In "Stasiland," Anna Funder interviews a transfixing cast of characters from the country's horrifying past.

    Windows on the Cold War Charles Cumming 2011

  • Geoffrey Macnab talks with several people about The Lives of Others, among them, Anna Funder, author of Stasiland, who tells him, Of course a movie can give us psychological satisfactions that real life can't - the happy end, or, as here, the change of heart.

    GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2007

  • Anna Funder, author of Stasiland, on The Lives of Others: It is a superb film, a thing of beauty.

    GreenCine Daily: Books, 5/9. 2007

  • Her name is Anna Funder and the book is Stasiland.

    Stasiland and The Lives of Others Jo McLeay 2007

  • The latest addition to my Amazon. ca wish list (ahem) is Stasiland by Australian journalist Anna Funder, who interviews former East German Stasi (secret police) informants and their victims.

    Daimnation!: "Stasiland" 2003

  • A first novel from the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Stasiland.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • A first novel from the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Stasiland.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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  • In a Guardian article, slang for East Germany, and its former Stasi.

    February 3, 2014