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Jeanette Winterson OBE
Writer Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. Schooling was erratic but Jeanette got herself into a girl's grammar school and later read English at Oxford University. After Oxford, Jeanette did odd jobs in the theatre and wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, when she was 23. It was published a year later in 1985. She then worked for her publishers at the time, Pandora Press, before publishing The Passion in 1987. At that point she became a full-time writer. Jeanette has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations including the Whitbread Prize, UK, and the Prix d'argent, Cannes Film Festival.
