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'Demon Copperhead' wins a Pulitzer

Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, an update of David Copperfield set in the Appalachians, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction last week (sharing the honor with Trust by Hernan Diaz). I'm currently reading the novel and hope to have a review for you soon!

'A Christmas Carol' earns three Tony nominations

This was the Jefferson Mays one-man Christmas Carol that ran on Broadway from November 2022 to January 2023. Congratulations to Dane Laffrey and Lucy Mackinnon, nominated for Best Scenic Design of a Play; Joshua D. Reid, nominated for Best Sound Design of a Play; and Ben Stanton, nominated for Best Lighting Design of a Play! The full list of nominations is here.

Award nominations for 'Copperfield'

The Personal History of David Copperfield got one Golden Globe nomination (Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Dev Patel) and four Satellite Award nominations (Comedy or Musical, Actor in a Comedy or Musical for Patel, Art Direction and Production Design for Cristina Casali and Charlotte Dirickx, and Costume Design for Suzie Harman and Robert Worley). Nice to see, but of course I wish there were more!

Awards season begins for 'Copperfield'

The British Independent Film Awards have announced their nominations. Armando Iannucci's David Copperfield adaptation leads the pack with 11, including Best British Independent Film, Best Screenplay, and acting nominations for Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, and Hugh Laurie.

Congratulations to Miriam Margolyes!

Her audiobook version of Bleak House won the 2019 Audie Award in the Literary Fiction and Classics category. 

A Dickens of a berry

Charles Dickens has just had a strawberry named after him! Click here to find out why.

Congratulations, Richard Armitage!

The actor's reading of David Copperfield has been nominated for an Audie Award. I recently started listening to this audiobook, and (aside from wondering why he decided to make Aunt Betsey Scottish) I'm enjoying it very much.

Limerick for Dickens

To Limerick Dickens once went.
Now a plaque celebrates the event.
Though he thought that the town
Was quite odd, they're not down;
They still love that Victorian gent.

A Dickens postmark

From now until March 7, all mail sent to Portsmouth will get a postmark reading "Celebrating the birth of Charles Dickens 1812-1870." I was going to make a pun about "a man of letters," but alas, the Portsmouth News beat me to it! Thanks to The Buzfuz for the tip.

One more Dickens birthday photo

I just had to add this one from the Daily Mail, captioned "Three of Charles Dickens['s] great great great grandchildren, siblings Tom Dickens 15, Lydia Dickens 14 and Oliver Dickens 9 take a selfie with their ancestor's new statue in Portsmouth today."

 (Image copyright Matt Scott-Joynt/M and Y News Agency Ltd)