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Jeanette Winterson CBE FRSL (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology.
A MODERN & MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF CHILLING SHORT STORIES MIXED WITH REAL LIFE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SUPERNATURAL. NEW ARTICLE IN THE TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE... The official site of Jeanette Winterson, CBE. Discover Winterson's world, including books, video, audio recordings, and more.
Oct 29, 2023 · Jeanette Winterson Has No Idea What Happens Next. The author and former enfant terrible on life after death, breaking the rules, and forging a self through fiction. By Katy Waldman....
Jeanette Winterson, British writer noted for her quirky, unconventional, and often comic novels. Her notable works included Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Sexing the Cherry (1989), and Frankissstein (2019). Learn more about Winterson’s life and career.
AUTHOR | JEANETTE WINTERSON. I was born in Manchester, England, to a young woman who worked as a machinist at Marks & Spencer. That was in the days when Lancashire was still the textile king of the U.K., and garments for M&S were made in their factory in Manchester.
Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death. UK EDITION. US EDITION. Jeanette Winterson's books, from most recent to first published.
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , published in 1985.
Nov 13, 2022 · SINGAPORE – The intricacies and mundanities of sex bots got an unexpected airing in British author Jeanette Winterson’s sold-out talk, If We Can Imagine It, at the Singapore Writers Festival on...
Aug 9, 2021 · Jeanette Winterson on the books that changed her life. The author of 12 Bytes on how even a limited access to books helped her confidence as a writer, from The Bible to Virginia Woolf's Orlando. In in our house there were only six books, one of which was the Bible, and that was the book that I was brought up on.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Jeanette Winterson was named as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Writers' in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
