Chris Mitchell of Spike Magazine called it "an essential insight into the totalitarian regime".[2] Giles MacDonogh wrote in The Guardian that the culture of informants and moral capitulations "comes wonderfully to life in Funder's racy account".[1]
Stasiland has been published in sixty nine countries and translated into a dozen languages. It was shortlisted for many awards in the UK and Australia, among them The Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the Guardian First Book Award 2003, the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing) 2004, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards 2004, and the W.H. Heinemann Award 2004. In June 2004 it was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Stasiland is being developed for the stage by The National Theatre in London.[3]
