Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 27. August 1959 |
Geburtsort | Manchester, England, UK |
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Beschreibung | Jeanette Winterson CBE (born 27 August 1959) is an English writer. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. 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 holds an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. |
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
