Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson | |
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 Winterson in 2015 | |
| Born | 27 August 1959 Manchester, England, UK |
| Education | St. Catherine's College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Writer, journalist, Professor at the University of Manchester |
| Spouse | |
| Partner(s) | Peggy Reynolds (1990–2002) |
| Writing career | |
| Period | 1985–present |
| Genres | Fiction, children's fiction, journalism, science fiction |
| Notable work | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| Website | www |
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 and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
Winterson has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.