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skua Apr 30

@drrimmer

Good stuff.
At Sydney Uni of all places!

Nice to have an expert on secret police and authoritarianism classifying Trump as a fascist.

Weirdly/eerily lit images credited to "Steven Siewert". Photoshopped or AI Slopped?
I'd bin them.

#AnnaFunder #SydneyUniversity #Stasiland #Wifedom #JaquelineMaley

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Aug 24, 2025

#Trump #TrumpAdministration #women #AnnaFunder

Cheshire Feb 24, 2025

George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols? ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/george-orwells-doublethink-how-much-can-or-should-we-know-about-our-literary-idols/
#AnnaFunder
#GeorgeOrwell

George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols?

“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster.” –George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four * Craig and I are at our son…

Literary Hub

Ralph Wessman Nov 18, 2024

Australian authors group including #JMCoetzee, #CharlotteWood, #KimScott, #TimWinton, #MichelledeKretser and #AnnaFunder give federal politicians 5 books to encourage nuance in #MiddleEast debate.
The book selection was endorsed by the Jewish Council of Australia and the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network.
The group recommended the five “authoritative, highly readable books” to help address what they believed was a lack of nuance in public debate.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/19/tim-winton-charlotte-wood-australian-authors-book-package-politicians-middle-east-conflict
#AustralianWriters

Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate

Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package

The Guardian

MusiqueNow

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Sep 21, 2024

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20240917-anna-funder-s-wifedom-explores-overlooked-role-of-george-orwell-s-wife

#arts24

#AnnaFunder's '#Wifedom' explores overlooked role of #GeorgeOrwell's wife

#LInvisibleMadameOrwell #book

arts24 - Anna Funder's 'Wifedom' explores overlooked role of George Orwell's wife

Australian author Anna Funder talks to Dheepthika Laurent about her latest book "Wifedom", a part-fiction, part non-fiction and part-hybrid novel about Eileen O'Shaughnessy. She was the highly educated wife of George Orwell, who played a pivotal but largely uncredited role in his career. Anna Funder also responds to criticism by the Orwell Society that the book portrayed Orwell as "maleficent" and talks about what propelled her to leave her career as a government lawyer to pursue writing full-time.

FRANCE 24

Read Watch and Think Aug 22, 2023

In her new Book, Wifedom, Anna Funder tries to bring Eileen Blair, wife of George Orwell out of the shadows and giving her the due credit . Read more at
https://buff.ly/3qF3VbQ

#booknews #wifedom #georgeorwell #EileenBlair #Annafunder #readwatchandthink