Jeanette Winterson

Writing

Born: 1959-08-27
From: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Gender: Female
Popularity: 0.1

Biography

Jeanette Winterson, CBE 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.

Awards & Nominations8 won · 8 nominated

Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Frankissstein

2020
Nominated

Booker Prize

Frankissstein

2019
🏆 Won

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2016
🏆 Won

BBC 100 Women

2016
Nominated

Carnegie Medal

2011
Nominated

Carnegie Medal

2007
Nominated

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

2005
Nominated

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

2000
🏆 Won

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

1993
Nominated

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

1993
🏆 Won

British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1991
Nominated

British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1991
🏆 Won

E. M. Forster Award

1990
🏆 Won

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

🏆 Won

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

🏆 Won

Commander of the Order of the British Empire