Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson OBE 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 is a novel by Jeanette Winterson [i] published in 1985, which she sub ...
, 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.
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Quotations
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes.
No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.
Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuble thing: that no emotion is the final one.
Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
Here is some advice. If you want to keep your own teeth, make your own sandwiches ....
Described by the author as a comic book with pictures, rather than a second novel.
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Encyclopedia
Jeanette Winterson OBE 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 is a novel by Jeanette Winterson [i] published in 1985, which she sub ...
, 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.
Bibliography
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson [i] published in 1985, which she sub ...
- Boating for Beginners
- Fit For The Future
- The Passion
- Sexing the Cherry
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: the script
- Written on the Body
- Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
- Great Moments in Aviation: the script
- Art Objects
- Gut Symmetries
- The World and Other Places
- The Powerbook
- The King of Capri
- Lighthousekeeping
- Weight
- Tanglewreck
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