Author · born 1959
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) is an English writer. Born in Manchester.
Our catalogue lists 11 books by Jeanette Winterson, mostly sapphic fiction, historical romance and historical fantasy. They span 1985 to 2019. The most-read is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
Books by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Written on the Body
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Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
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Weight
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Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson
Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)
Jeanette Winterson
The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson
The PowerBook
Jeanette Winterson
Awards
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2014 — Lesbian Fiction, The Daylight Gate (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2005 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2000 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1994 — Lesbian Fiction (winner)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Lesbian Fiction (winner)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Lesbian Fiction, The Daylight Gate (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Frankissstein (nominee)
Biography
Jeanette Winterson is an British 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 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 into almost 20 languages.