![]() īy the age of 16, Winterson had come out as a lesbian and left home. She was raised to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary, and she began evangelising and writing sermons at the age of six. She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church. Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. 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. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. She broadcasts and teaches creative writing. ![]() Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanette Winterson CBE, FRSL (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. From the BBC programme Bookclub, 4 April 2010. ![]()
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