The winner of the Samuel Johnson prize will be announced on June 14 in London. I was surprised. I actually thought the BBC online article “Iraqi blogger nominated for prize” was referring to ...

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Anna Funder is the author of All That I Am, which won the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Stasiland. She is a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at UTS.