Stasiland

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her books Stasiland and All That I Am are both prize-winning international bestsellers, translated into many languages. Anna’s non-fiction work Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, won the 2024 ABIA Award for Biography of the Year and won the 2024 BookPeople Award for Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Wifedom was selected as a Notable Book of 2023 by the New York Times and a Book of the Year by The Times, The Economist, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph (UK) and The Telegraph (UK). Anna’s books have received many other prestigious awards, including the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for best non-fiction published in English for Stasiland, and Australia’s premier prize for fiction, the Miles Franklin, for All That I Am. Her essays have been widely published and anthologised. Anna is a University of Technology Sydney Luminary and Ambassador. In 2011 she was named in the ‘Top 100 People of Influence’ by the Sydney Morning Herald and appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. After several years in Brooklyn, NY, Anna now lives in Sydney.

Denica Fairman is a Canadian actor and voiceover artist. She began working as a voice actor at the at the age of 12, and has since worked extensively on stage, radio, and in television. She was a member of the Royal Shakespeare company for five years, as well as appearing on Broadway in Nicholas Nickleby. Denica is also a well-known voice for BBC Radio Drama, playing a host of characters in the cult-comedy On the Blog, as well as appearing in No Angel, Badfellas and Death of Joe Inglis.