Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 58
Top works
- orange isnt the only fruit
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Garder la flamme
- Ox-Tales
- Cancelled Winterson
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Film & TV
Writing · Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Jeanette Winterson, CBE is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.
Known for
- LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes — Self2026
- Titanic Sinks Tonight — Self - Expert2025
- Jake Chapman's Accelerate or Die! — Self2023
- Remembers… — Self2022
- Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women — Herself - Contributor2018
- Queer as Art — Self2017
- Marcians — Self2017
- Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me — Self2012
- Question Time — Self - Panellist1979
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 97
- Total plays
- 1,197
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,846x
- Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
· 2015 · cited 4,211x
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,130x
- Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids
· 2010 · cited 3,158x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-08-27 ) 27 August 1959 (age 66) , Manchester , England, UK
- Occupation
- Writer, journalist, Professor at the University of Manchester
- Alma mater
- St. Catherine's College, Oxford
- Period
- 1985–present
- Genre
- Fiction, children's fiction , journalism, science fiction
- Notable works
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Spouse
- Susie Orbach ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2019 )
- Partner
- Peggy Reynolds , (1990–2002)
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Key dates
- Born
- 27 August 1959
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jeanette
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Manchester
- Spouse
- Susie Orbach
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Article
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.
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1959 births20th-century English essayists20th-century English LGBTQ people20th-century English novelists20th-century English screenwriters20th-century English short story writers20th-century English women novelists21st-century English LGBTQ people21st-century English memoirists21st-century English novelists21st-century English short story writers