Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson CBE FRSL
Winterson in 2015
Born	(1959-08-27) 27 August 1959 (age 65) Manchester, England, UK
Occupation	Writer, journalist, Professor at the University of Manchester
Nationality	British
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 ​ ​ (m. 2015; sep. 2019)​
Partner	Peggy Reynolds (1990–2002)
Jeanette Winterson's voice from the BBC programme Bookclub, 4 April 2010.[1]
Website
www.jeanettewinterson.com

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 polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. She 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. Her novels have been translated to almost 20 languages.^[2]