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About Jeanette Winterson
English author
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. She is known for her fiction, especially her debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical story about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Her later novels often explore gender and sexual identity, and her more recent work turns to the relationship between people and technology. Her books have been translated into nearly 20 languages, and she also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
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- “There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.”Jeanette Winterson
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- “The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find some…”Jeanette Winterson
- “I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering wher…”Jeanette Winterson
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- “It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a count…”Dean Ambrose
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Books by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1991
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2012
Weight
2006
The passion
1989
The stone gods
2007