Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson was born and brought up in Lancashire, raised by an adoptive evangelical family.

She read English at St Catherine’s College Oxford, and published her first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit when she was 26. It won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel and was adapted for TV by Winterson in 1990. The televisation won a BAFTA for best drama.

She received an OBE in the 2006 honours list.

Her other novels include Boating for Beginners (1985), The Passion (1987), Sexing the Cherry (1989), and three books exploring triangular relationships, gender and formal experimentation: Written on the Body (1992), Art and Lies (1994) and Gut Symmetries (1997).

Biog last updated Aug 2006

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