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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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- “Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”Jeanette Winterson
- “I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.”Jeanette Winterson
Explore Language
- “I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are…”Kenneth Cranham
- “'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the mo…”Rupi Kaur
- “Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long…”Mallika Nawal
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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