Jeanette Winterson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeanette Winterson
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 27, 1959(1959-08-27)
Age	65
Birthplace	Manchester
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jeanette Winterson Biography

Jeanette Winterson is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on August 27, 1959 in Manchester, United Kingdom. Jeanette Winterson CBE (born 27 August 1959) is an English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi- autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity, with later novels also exploring the relationship between humans and technology. She is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.

Winterson’s subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards. Her stage adaptation of The PowerBook in 2002 opened at the Royal National Theatre, London. She also bought a derelict terraced house in Spitalfields, east London, which she refurbished into a flat as a pied-à-terre and a ground-floor shop, Verde’s, to sell organic food. In January 2017 she was talking about closing the shop because a spike in rateable value, and thus business rates, threatened to make the business untenable.

In 2012, Winterson succeeded Colm Tóibín as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.

Her 2012 novella, The Daylight Gate, based on the 1612 Pendle Witch Trials, was published on the 400th anniversary of the trials. The novella’s main character, Alice Nutter, is based on the real-life woman of the same name. The Guardian’s Sarah Hall describes the work:

Winterson came out as a lesbian at the age of 16. Her 1987 novel The Passion was inspired by her affair with Pat Kavanagh, her literary agent. From 1990 to 2002, Winterson was involved with BBC radio broadcaster and academic Peggy Reynolds. After their relationship ended, Winterson became involved with theatre director Deborah Warner. In 2015, she married psychotherapist Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue.

Jeanette Winterson Net Worth

Jeanette Winterson is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeanette Winterson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church. She was raised to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary, and she began evangelising and writing sermons at age six.

After she moved to London, she wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel. Winterson adapted it for television in 1990. Her novel The Passion was set in Napoleonic Europe.

In 2009, she donated the short story “Dog Days” to Oxfam’s Ox-Tales project, which comprised four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Winterson’s story was published in the Fire collection. She also supported the relaunch of the Bush Theatre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush. She wrote and performed work for the Sixty Six Books project, based on a chapter of the King James Bible, along with other novelists and poets including Paul Muldoon, Carol Ann Duffy, Anne Michaels and Catherine Tate.

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Top Facts about Jeanette Winterson

1. Jeanette Winterson is an English writer born in 1959.
2. She won the Whitbread Prize for her debut novel, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.”
3. Winterson has written over 20 books, including novels and non-fiction.
4. Her work often explores themes of gender, sexuality, and identity.
5. In addition to writing, she has also worked as a professor and journalist.
6. Winterson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006.
7. She is openly gay and has been an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
8. Winterson’s memoir “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” was adapted into a play.
9. She has been awarded numerous literary honors throughout her career.
10. Winterson currently resides in London with her wife Susie Orbach, a psychotherapist and writer.

Are Susie Orbach and Jeanette Winterson still married?

For more than a decade she was in a relationship with the therapist Susie Orbach, whom she married in 2015, but it ended two years ago , unbeknownst to the wider world.

Is Jeanette Winterson deaf?

Jeanette has physically become deaf , yet her mother and the other members of the congregation are blind to her hearing loss. Only Miss Jewsbury, who is considered unholy by the other members of the church, recognizes what is truly happening.

Is Jeanette Winterson still married?

From 1990 to 2002, Winterson had an affair with BBC radio broadcaster and academic Peggy Reynolds. After their relationship ended, Winterson became involved with theatre director Deborah Warner. In 2015, she married psychotherapist Susie Orbach , author of Fat is a Feminist Issue.

What genre is Jeanette Winterson?

Over the last thirty years, Jeanette Winterson has worked across the genres of film, essay, novel, children’s literature, short story, ‘comic’ (as Winterson herself describes Boating for Beginners (1985)), even self-help guide: Fit for the Future (1986).

Is Susie Orbach married?

Jeanette Winterson