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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist. Born in Manchester Manchester

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 by a Pentecostal Pentecost

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 couple, who brought her up in Accrington Accrington

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, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian Missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian Lesbian

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 affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford St Catherine's College, Oxford

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. After moving to London London

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, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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, was published when she was twenty six years old. It won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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 by Winterson in 1990, which in turn won the BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts

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 for Best Drama.

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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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Jeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.

Born in Manchester Manchester

The City of Manchester is a major city [i] and metropolitan borough [i] in the North [i] of England [i], ... 

, she was adopted Adoption

Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth p... 

 by a Pentecostal Pentecost

Pentecost or Pentecost Sunday is a feast [i] on the Christian [i] liturgical calendar [i] ... 

 couple, who brought her up in Accrington Accrington

Accrington, in the County of Lancashire [i], is a small former mill [i] town in the industrial nor... 

, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian Missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian Lesbian

A lesbian is a female [i] who is exclusively emotionally [i], sexually [i], ... 

 affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford St Catherine's College, Oxford

St Catherine's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford [i] in the United Kingdom [i] ... 

. After moving to London London

London is the capital [i] city of England [i] and of the United Kingdom [i]. ... 

, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson [i] published in 1985, which she sub ... 

 by Winterson in 1990, which in turn won the BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, is a British organisation that hosts annual awards show... 

 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 Royal National Theatre

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, London. She also opened a shop, Verde's, in East London to sell organic food.

She received an OBE Order of the British Empire

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 in the 2006 honours list.

Bibliography


  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    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

External links

  • by Guardian Unlimited Guardian Unlimited

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