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.
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Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Lesbians, English literature, Children's fiction, English fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Women authors, England, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, romance, general, History, 18.05 English literature, 823/.914, Adaptations, Art, Atlas (Greek deity), Choice (Psychology), Families, Family, Fantasy, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, romance, historical, generalPlaces
England, Great Britain, Italy, France, Grande-Bretagne, Lancashire (England), Liverpool, Liverpool (England), London, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), Pendle, Russia, Venice, Venice (Italy)People
Jeanette Winterson (1959-), Sappho, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Time
17th century, 19th century, 2007, 20e siècle, 20th century, 21st century, Charles II, 1660-1685, James I, 1603-1625, Napoleonic War, The Far FutureID Numbers
- OLID: OL229997A
- GoodReads: 9399
- ISNI: 0000000121185882
- IMDb: nm0936019
- Library of Congress Names: n84044023
- LibraryThing: wintersonjeanette
- MusicBrainz: 2f88b6be-2dba-4c4f-9be0-8c59c93fb049
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV116036
- VIAF: 4961254
- Wikidata: Q233584
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q233584
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- Winterson, Janette
- Winterson Jaenette
- Jeane WINTERSON
- JEANETTE WINTERSON
- Winterson Jeanette