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Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning 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. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church. Intending to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary, she began evangelising and writing sermons at age six.
By the age of 16 Winterson had identified herself as a lesbian and left home. She soon after attended Accrington and Rossendale College, and supported herself at a variety of odd jobs while reading English at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
After she moved to London, her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, and was adapted for television by Winterson in 1990. This in turn won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama. She won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for The Passion, a novel set in Napoleonic Europe.
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In a series for the BBC News website, Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in precisely five minutes. In this video, Matt talks to Jeanette Winterson.
Jeanette Winterson OBE is one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Across novels, screenplays, essays and journalism, Winterson has taken risks and challenged us to think differently about identity and relationships. At fifteen, Winterson's love affair with another woman was discovered. She was condemned by her church, leading to her expulsion from the community and her decision to leave home. She worked odd jobs, from an ice-cream van driver to a funeral parlour make-up artist, supporting herself as she obtained her B.A. in English from St. Catherine's College at Oxford. She would go on to write over twenty books, including the celebrated novels such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry, as well as the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Norm...
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcGwOB1Cq4 In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true. http://www.vintage-books.co.uk http://www.facebook.comvintagebooks
At the Sydney Opera House for the Sydney Writers' Festival, Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and talks about books, life,...
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? trailer . Amazon's Mia Lipman chats with Jeanette Winterson, visited Amazon's Seattle campus to discuss her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Iliana's channel: Find me at: . Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? trailer . In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first .
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AM Homes, winner of the women's prize for fiction, talks to Jeanette Winterson Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Jeanette Winterson interviews AM Homes, whose satirical novel May We Be Forgiven beat stiff competition from the likes of Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies to take home the women's prize for fiction. The US author talks about her attempt at the Great American Novel, the significance of an award for women writers and the meaning of 'forgiveness'
100 Women: Jeanette Winterson helps children rewrite Cinderella UK author Jeanette Winterson has helped school children re-imagine the fairy tale Cinderella for a new generation. As part of the BBC's 100 Women season, she visited a primary school in the Cotswolds to discuss ways in which Cinderella is sexist and then asked the children to come up with their own version. Video journalists Kelvin Brown and Jack Slater, produced by Sarah Buckley.
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Amazon's Mia Lipman chats with Jeanette Winterson, visited Amazon's Seattle campus to discuss her memoir, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" (http://www.amazon.com/Why-Happy-When-Could-Normal/dp/0802120105/)
In a series for the BBC News website, Celebrities and news-makers are grilled by Matthew Stadlen in precisely five minutes. In this video, Matt talks to Jeanette Winterson.
Amazon's Mia Lipman chats with Jeanette Winterson, visited Amazon's Seattle campus to discuss her memoir, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" (http://www.amazon.com/Why-Happy-When-Could-Normal/dp/0802120105/)
Jeanette Winterson OBE is one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Across novels, screenplays, essays and journalism, Winterson has taken risks and challenged us to think differently about identity and relationships. At fifteen, Winterson's love affair with another woman was discovered. She was condemned by her church, leading to her expulsion from the community and her decision to leave home. She worked odd jobs, from an ice-cream van driver to a funeral parlour make-up artist, supporting herself as she obtained her B.A. in English from St. Catherine's College at Oxford. She would go on to write over twenty books, including the celebrated novels such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry, as well as the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Norm...
Jeanette Winterson is the celebrated author whose debut novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' made her famous as one of our greatest writing talents at the age of only 23. She’s written many novels since, won many awards, is published in 18 countries and has become Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She joins us in the studio to talk about a special collection of stories that she’s put together for Christmas. It’s called Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days. Find out more - http://adbl.co/ChristmasDays
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcGwOB1Cq4 In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true. http://www.vintage-books.co.uk http://www.facebook.comvintagebooks
http://abc.net.au/sydneywritersfestival Author Jeanette Winterton will be a guest at the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival
At the Sydney Opera House for the Sydney Writers' Festival, Jeanette Winterson reads from her new memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and talks about books, life,...
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? trailer . Amazon's Mia Lipman chats with Jeanette Winterson, visited Amazon's Seattle campus to discuss her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Iliana's channel: Find me at: . Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? trailer . In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first .