Barbara Kingsolver Makes History with Second Women's Prize for Fiction Win for "Demon Copperhead"
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Barbara Kingsolver has won the Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead, a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield set in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Kingsolver is the first author to win the prize twice. The judges praised the book as "a towering, deeply powerful and significant book" that exposes the opioid crisis and the detrimental treatment of deprived and maligned rural communities in modern America.
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- Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women’s prize for fiction for second time The Guardian
- Barbara Kingsolver wins Women's Prize for Fiction with Appalachian novel 'Demon Copperhead' The Associated Press
- Barbara Kingsolver is the first two-time winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Literary Hub
- Barbara Kingsolver wins Women's Prize for Fiction with Demon Copperhead The Irish Times
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