Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson, Warsaw, Poland, February 16, 2005
Born:	August 27, 1959 Manchester
Occupation(s):	novelist
Nationality:	English
Writing period:	1985-
Genre(s):	Sexual/gender identity
Website:	http://www.jeanettewinterson.com

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Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian Missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After moving to London, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published when she was twenty six years old. It won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990, which in turn won the BAFTA for Best Drama. Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough within Greater Manchester in North West England. ... Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth parents. ... Pentecost (symbolically related to the Jewish festival of Shavuot) is a feast on the Christian liturgical calendar that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, and the followers (men and women) of Jesus, fifty days (seven weeks) after Easter, and ten days after Ascension Thursday. ... Statistics Population: 35,203 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD755286 Administration District: Hyndburn Shire county: Lancashire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lancashire Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Lancashire Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North West Post office and telephone Post... A Christian mission has been widely defined, since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, as that which is designed to form a viable indigenous church-planting movement. ... A lesbian is a female who is emotionally, sexually, and/or romantically attracted to other females. ... Full name St Catherines College Motto Nova et Vetera The New and the Old Named after Previous names St. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, subsequently made into a BBC television serial starring Charlotte Coleman. ... Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit was a critically acclaimed 1990 BBC television drama mini-series, directed by Beeban Kidron. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

Jeanette Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards. Her stage adaptation of The Powerbook in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre, London. She also opened a shop, Verde's, in Spitalfields, East London to sell organic food. The Royal National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge The Royal National Theatre is a building complex and theatre company located on the South Bank in London, England immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. ... Christ Church, Spitalfields Spitalfields, an area in Tower Hamlets, east London near to Liverpool Street station and Brick Lane which gets its name from a contraction of hospital fields, as there used to be a major hospital in the area. ...

She received an OBE in the 2006 honours list. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ...

Her partner for 12 years was Peggy Reynolds, the academic. Another influential previous girlfriend was Pat Kavanagh, her literary agent. Pat Kavanagh is a distinguished British literary agent. ...

Bibliography

• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
• Boating for Beginners (1985)
• Fit For The Future: The Guide for Women Who Want to Live Well (1986)
• The Passion (1987)
• Sexing the Cherry (1989)
• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: the script (1990)
• Written on the Body (1992)
• Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (1994)
• Great Moments in Aviation: the script (1995)
• Art Objects (1995)
• Gut Symmetries (1997)
• The World and Other Places (1998)
• The Powerbook (2000)
• The King of Capri (2003)
• Lighthousekeeping (2004)
• Weight (2005)
• Tanglewreck (2006)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, subsequently made into a BBC television serial starring Charlotte Coleman. ...

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