Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers.

Her Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland told the stories of those who resisted the dictatorship of East Germany, while the Miles Franklin Prize-winning All That I Am was an homage to anti-Hitler activists living bravely in exile in London.

Her latest book, Wifedom – where she upends the legacy of George Orwell to reveal his overlooked wife – has been hailed as a masterpiece.

She talks to RNZ’s Susie Ferguson.