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| Jeanette Winterson | |
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| Jeanette Winterson, Warsaw, Poland, 16 February 2005 | |
| Born | 27 August 1959 Manchester , England |
| Occupation | Novelist , Journalist , Delicatessen owner |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1985- |
| Genres | Fiction , Children's fiction , Journalism , Science fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
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Jeanette Winterson OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British novelist.
Early years
Winterson was born in Manchester and raised in Accrington , Lancashire , by adoptive parents Constance and John William Winterson. She was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church , and she intended to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary , she began evangelising and writing sermons at age six
However by age 16 Winterson declared she was lesbian and left home.[3] She soon after attended Accrington and Rossendale CollegeEnglish at St Catherine's College, Oxford . and supported herself at a variety of odd jobs while reading for a degree in
Career
After moving to London , her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , was published when she was 26 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 Award for Best Drama. She won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Passion , a novel set in Napoleonic Europe.
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 bought a derelict terraced house in Spitalfields , east London, which she refurbished into a flat as a pied-a-terre and a ground-floor shop, Verde's, to sell organic food .
Winterson was made an officer of Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2006 New Year Honours .
In 2009, she donated the short story Dog Days to Oxfam's Ox-TalesFire collection. project comprising four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Winterson's story was published in the
Personal life
In 2002, Winterson ended her 12-year relationship with BBC radio broadcaster and academic, Peggy Reynolds.[6] Her novel Written on the Body was inspired by her affair with Pat Kavanagh , her literary agent .
Bibliography
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
- Boating for Beginners (1985)
- Fit For The Future: The Guide for Women Who Want to Live Well (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)
- The Stone Gods (2007)
- The Battle of the Sun (2009)
- The Lion, The Unicorn and Me: The Donkey's Christmas Story (2009)
- The Battle of the Sun (2010)