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ABC fiction prize winnerThe winner of this year's ABC Fiction Award is Adelaide-based high-school teacher Kain Massin for his novel God for the Killing.Published 2 April, 2008 The winner of this year's ABC Fiction Award is Adelaide-based high-school teacher Kain Massin for his novel God for the Killing. God for the Killing follows the story of heroine Judith, who was snatched from Nazareth as a child and trained as an assassin by the Romans. Judith finds herself in Judaea in 30AD. charged with a mission to kill the new Messiah, whom she soon learns is actually Joshua, her childhood sweetheart. Beating 400 entries, God for the Killing was selected by four judges who unanimously agreed upon God for the Killing as the winning entrant for 2008. The judges this year were Lindy Burns, Luke Davies, Murray Waldren and Jo Mackay. Davies said God for the Killing is ‘a good, strong, historical novel. I loved how wacky and mystical it got.' Waldren called it an ‘inventive, engrossing take on a well-told tale.' From the six manuscripts that were short listed, the judges have also chosen two highly commended works--Honey Brown's Red Queen and Lyndal Caffrey's Homing. God for the Killing will be published later in 2008 by ABC Books and Kain will receive his cheque for $10,000 and the award from Mark Scott, ABC managing director, at a function in Sydney on Tuesday 22 April. This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Book News Archive
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