Novelist, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK, and adopted into a Pentecostal family as an infant. Educated at Oxford, her first novel, the autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1987), won the Whitbread Prize. Later books include The Passion (1987), Sexing The Cherry (1989), Gut Symmetries (1997), Lighthousekeeping (2004), and a collection of stories, World and Other Places (1999). Her first novel for children, Tanglewreck, appeared in 2006.
Jeanette Winterson|
Jeanette Winterson, Warsaw, Poland, February 16, 2005 |
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August 27, 1959 Manchester |
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| Occupation(s): | novelist |
| Nationality: | English |
| Writing period: | 1985- |
| Genre(s): | Sexual/gender identity |
| Website: | http://www.jeanettewinterson.com |
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist.
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