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culture7 months ago•4 min saved

Bernardine Evaristo Wins Women's Prize for Outstanding Contribution

Bernardine Evaristo was awarded a special one-off Women's Prize for Fiction for her impactful career and advocacy for diversity and inclusion in the arts, receiving £100,000 and a sculpture, which she plans to use to support other women writers. The award recognizes her contributions, including her Booker Prize-winning novel and her efforts to amplify women's voices in literature.

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literature2 years ago•2 min saved

Barbara Kingsolver Makes History with Second Women's Prize for Fiction Win for "Demon Copperhead"

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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