Jeanette Winterson
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 Jeanette Winterson, Warsaw, Poland, February 16, 2005 |
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| Born: | August 27, 1959 Manchester |
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| Occupation(s): | novelist |
| Nationality: | English |
| Writing period: | 1985- |
| Genre(s): | Sexual/gender identity |
| Website: | http://www.jeanettewinterson.com |
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist.
Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian Missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After moving to London, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published when she was twenty six years old. It won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990, which in turn won the BAFTA for Best Drama.
Jeanette Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards. Her stage adaptation of The Powerbook in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre, London. She also opened a shop, Verde's, in East London to sell organic food.
She received an OBE in the 2006 honours list.
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- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
- Boating for Beginners (1985)
- Fit For The Future (1986)
- The Passion (1987)
- Sexing the Cherry (1989)
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: the script (1990)
- Written on the Body (1992)
- Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (1994)
- Great Moments in Aviation: the script (1995)
- Art Objects (1995)
- Gut Symmetries (1997)
- The World and Other Places (1998)
- The Powerbook (2000)
- The King of Capri (2003)
- Lighthousekeeping (2004)
- Weight (2005)
- Tanglewreck (2006)
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