Jeanette Winterson
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 Jeanette Winterson, Warsaw, Poland, 16 February 2005 |
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| Born | 27 August 1959 Manchester, England |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, delicatessen owner |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1985– |
| Genres | Fiction, children's fiction, journalism, science fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| Partner(s) | Peggy Reynolds (1990-2002), Susie Orbach |
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Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British writer.
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Early years [edit]
Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960.[1] She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church. Intending to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary, she began evangelising and writing sermons at age six.[2][3]
By the age of 16 Winterson had identified herself as a lesbian and left home.[4] She soon after attended Accrington and Rossendale College, and supported herself at a variety of odd jobs while reading for a degree in English at St Catherine's College, Oxford.[5][6]
Career [edit]
After moving to London, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990. This 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.[7]
Winterson was made an officer of Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2006 New Year Honours "For services to literature".[8]
In 2009, she donated the short story Dog Days to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project comprising four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Winterson's story was published in the Fire collection.[9] She also supported the relaunch of the Bush Theatre in London's Shepherd's Bush. She wrote and performed work for the Sixty Six project, based on a chapter of the King James Bible, along with other novelists and poets including Paul Muldoon, Carol Ann Duffy, Anne Michaels and Catherine Tate.[10][11]
In 2012, she succeeded Colm Tóibín as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester
Personal life [edit]
In 2002, Winterson ended her 12-year relationship with BBC radio broadcaster and academic Peggy Reynolds.[12] Since then she has been involved with theatre director Deborah Warner and therapist Susie Orbach.[13] Her novel The Passion was inspired by her affair with Pat Kavanagh, her literary agent.[14]
Bibliography [edit]
- 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. Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (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)
- Ingenious (2009)
- The Lion, The Unicorn and Me: The Donkey's Christmas Story (2009)
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011)
- The Daylight Gate (2012)
References [edit]
- ^ "Jeanette Winterson: all about my mother". The Guardian (London). 29 October 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ Brooks, Libby (2 September 2000). "Power surge". The Guardian (London).
- ^ International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Volume 6, Number 4. SpringerLink. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- ^ Patricia Juliana Smith (24 July 2006). "Winterson, Jeanette (b. 1959)". glbtq Encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
- ^ Winterson profile
- ^ Lancashire Telegraph "Amazon sorry for book sales error which hit Accrington author" 14 April 2009
- ^ Kate Kellaway (25 June 2006). "If I Was a Dog, I'd Be a Terrier". The Observer (London). Retrieved 6 December 2008.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 57855. p. 13. 31 December 2005. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
- ^ Ox-Tales. Oxfam. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- ^ The Sixty Six Project. Bush Theatre. Retrieved on 26 August 2011.
- ^ Guardian "Sixty-Six Books – review" 16 October 2011
- ^ Maya Jaggi (29 May 2004). "Saturday Review: Profile: Jeanette Winterson". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 4 December 2008.
- ^ Stuart Jeffries (22 February 2010). "Jeanette Winterson: 'I thought of suicide'". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ^ Gadher, Dipesh (26 October 2008). "Lesbian novelist Jeanette Winterson planned last visit to dying ex-lover". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
External links [edit]
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- Jeanette Winterson official website
- Jeanette Winterson author page by Guardian Unlimited
- Audrey Bilger (Winter 1997). "Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150". The Paris Review.
- Guardian podcast interview (2007)
- Rain Taxi interview (2005)
- Guardian interview (2000)
- Salon interview (1997)[dead link]
- Interview with Ramona Koval on her Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 Opening Address,'Get a book, get a life: How words create meaning' – The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 1 June 2008[dead link]
- Interview on The Stone Gods with Ramona Koval on The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 23 Oct 2007[dead link]
- An extended autobiographical article in The Guardian, Friday 28 October 2011: Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- 2012 radio interview (30 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
- English novelists
- English screenwriters
- English short story writers
- Lesbian writers
- LGBT writers from England
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners
- Magic realism writers
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Accrington
- Costa Book Award winners
- Writers from Manchester
- British adoptees
- CrimethInc.
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- English women writers
