SOURCE: BBC
Women's Prize for Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver Wins for Demon Copperhead
This year's Women's Prize for Fiction has gone to Barbara Kingsolver for Demon Copperhead, a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
Kingsolver, who also won in 2010 for The Lacuna, is the first author to take the prize twice.
She said Dickens wrote his 1850 novel "to protest the ravages of poverty on the children of his time", adding: "I wrote mine for the same reason."
The judges called it "a towering, deeply powerful and significant book".
This year's Women's Prize for Fiction has gone to Barbara Kingsolver for Demon Copperhead, a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
Kingsolver, who also won in 2010 for The Lacuna, is the first author to take the prize twice.
She said Dickens wrote his 1850 novel "to protest the ravages of poverty on the children of his time", adding: "I wrote mine for the same reason."
The judges called it "a towering, deeply powerful and significant book".