The Guardian's Sarah Hall describes the work: Its main character, Alice Nutter, is based on the real-life woman of the same name. Winterson's 2012 novella The Daylight Gate, based on the 1612 Pendle Witch Trials, appeared on their 400th anniversary. She wrote and performed work for the Sixty Six Books 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. She also supported the relaunch of the Bush Theatre in London's Shepherd's Bush. Her story appeared in the Fire collection. In 2009, Winterson donated the short story "Dog Days" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, covering four collections of UK stories by 38 authors. In January 2017 she discussed closing the shop when a spike in rateable value, and so business rates, threatened to make the business untenable. She also bought a derelict terraced house in Spitalfields, east London, which she refurbished into an occasional flat and a ground-floor shop, Verde's, to sell organic food. Her stage adaptation of The PowerBook in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre, London. Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards. Her novel The Passion was set in Napoleonic Europe. Winterson adapted it for television in 1990. Career Īfter she moved to London, she wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel. She soon after attended Accrington and Rossendale College, and supported herself at a variety of odd jobs while studying English at St. īy the age of 16, Winterson had come out as a lesbian and left home. She was raised to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary, and she began evangelising and writing sermons at the age of six.
She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church. Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. 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. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology.
Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. Jeanette Winterson CBE, FRSL (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.
From the BBC programme Bookclub, 4 April 2010.
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