Jeanette Winterson
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- Winterson, Jeanette
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1959-08-27
- Place of birth
- Manchester
Wikipedia
Jeanette Winterson (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. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. She 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. Her novels have been translated to almost 20 languages.
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Kunst und Lügen: Ein Stück für drei Stimmen und eine Bordellwirtin | Paperback | 3-499-22399-6 | 1999-03 |
Auf den Körper geschrieben | Hardcover | 3-10-092210-7 | 1992 |
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- 2024-05-15