The holocaust industry lives on:
Anti-Nazi novel scoops Book of the Year
May 19, 2012
Australian author Anna Funder has taken out top honours at this year's Australian Book Industry Awards.
Her first novel, All That I Am, won Book of the Year and Literary Fiction Book of the Year at a gala ceremony held on Friday night in Sydney.
Funder, whose book was inspired by real-life events involving anti-Hitler activists in the 1930s, said she was honoured to win the award.
"It's a pretty intimate kind of book, so it's a frightening thing to put that out in the world," she said.
"It's frightening to work on something for five years and then just cross your fingers. So, yes, I'm really, really thrilled but I'm also very relieved that people like it.
"This kind of absolute dictatorship exists throughout history and it exists now in all sorts of places. I could have written this story about China or about Libya or about Burma or anywhere where there are absolutist governments and there are people resisting them." (Yeah, except then you wouldn't have won a prize)
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